Blog Post 15

I read an article called "Conceived to Save Her Sister, a Child Is Born" by Associated Press.  It was about how an 18 year old girl named Anissa Ayala was suffering from leukemia needed a bone marrow transplant to live.  She didn't have any direct siblings so her parents decided to have another baby hoping he/she would be a perfect match.  After many complications with the conceiving and birth of the baby, the couple had a baby girl named Marissa Eve.  Oddly enough she was a perfect match for Anissa!  The doctors told the parents that they would have to wait 6 months for Marissa to grow, and that there was a 70-80% chance that it would be successful.  In the end, Marissa gave her sister some of her bone marrow and she ended up curing her cancer and living.  This relates to my life because when my sister was first born and was no older then 5 months she came down with encephalitis, which is a disease that is similar to West Nile and consists of severe swelling of the brain.  She needed some blood to be donated to her and I oddly enough was a perfect match, so I gave some of my blood to her and she ended up living and is now 13, happy, and healthy!