Transplant Donor and Patient Meet in Illinois
Tim Crawford said his mother's death from cancer inspired him to become a bone marrow donor.
In early October, cancer survivor Rosalind Beard finally got to meet the man she credits with saving her life.
At Loyola University Medical center's annual bone marrow transplant celebration, the 40-year-old woman met up with Tim Crawford of Adairsville, Georgia, who donated stem cells for her 2007 transplant.
Beard, a mother of four, told the Chicago Sun-Times she wanted to thank Crawford personally for his gesture, which also gave her faith and hope to keep fighting her cancer.
"I really wanted to put the face behind who had helped me to be able to see my kids grow up," she said.
Crawford told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that a presentation at his church prompted him to join the National Marrow Donor Program. His mother had died of cancer and his father passed away from a muscle disease, and Crawford said he wanted his donation to give someone more time with their family.
Now that she has recovered from Hodgkin's lymphoma, Beard said she plans to go to nursing school so she can help others, according to the Journal-Constitution.
Sarah Beldo is a journalist in San Francisco
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