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I think back to the first day when I heard "Clarissa's going to need a transplant"
and it was probably the most devastating day of my life. We had tried to go through the
regular steps of seeing if Clarissa's siblings matched. And, unfortunately they didn't
match her. They matched one another, but they didn't match her. So, the next step was
of course going through the registry and trying to find a donor match.
I actually registered during a mass registry for a friend's girlfriend. They did mention
that Hispanic population was underrepresented in this registry. And, just out of the blue
one day I got a phone call saying that I was a potential match for a patient and I was
just given a gender and age. I had no clue where this person came from,
nothing. And, it's just like God dropped an angel down and said, "Here, there he
is". Just the feeling of knowing that my husband
did something like that for somebody else, I am so proud of him.
If I was to talk to somebody who had just gotten the phone call that they were a potential
match for a recipient, for a patient, I would tell them to go through the whole process.
To go through it as far as they could go. It is something that I think everybody should
do. I think that if anybody's got the opportunity to save a life, save a life.