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[Stinky The Clown]

Daughter Makes Brave Sacrifice For Her Father



Gabbie Glick saved her father's life with a bone marrow transplant.



WESTMINSTER, Md. (WJZ) ― How do you ask a 9-year-old to save Daddy's life? One Westminster family recently struggled with this very difficult question.

In July 2008, life as the Glicks knew it turned upside down.

"I was diagnosed on July 7 and was lucky to be alive on July 8," said Larry Glick.

The Westminster family learned Larry Glick had a very rare and very advanced type of leukemia.

"That's the changing point," he said.

His only chance for survival was a bone marrow transplant.

"My blood was like sludge. Literally like sludge," Glick said.

But in a pool of seven million donors, no one matched Larry. So doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital proposed a radical idea: Larry's 9-year-old daughter Gabbie, whose DNA is half her dad's, could donate.

Larry and his wife April left the grown-up decision to Gabbie.


More at this link: http://wjz.com/health/larry.glick.gabby.2.991697.html




This family lives kinda close to the sites for the two murder suicides that occurred in Maryland last week. What a startling contrast.

[Control-Z]

1. KnR

of course.:)

[AtomicKitten]

2. Great story! That should earn her a raise in allowance and a later bedtime. n/t

[angstlessk]

3. honey, you could tell me I would live in excrutiating pain for the rest of my life

to save my dad..he died when I was 16 and I have never gotten over it...I would take pain or threat of dying any day of the week!

[roguevalley]

6. me too. for my dad, the moon. RIP, Alan Murray Bishop, my dad,

my hero. I would have given a limb to save him from Lymphoma. :(

[Tangerine LaBamba]

4. That's a very savvy, solid little girl -

Her only condition was that she didn't want to know anything about the procedure.

Isn't that wonderful? She knew her limits, and she did not want them violated.

Seven years old.

What a GREAT, GREAT kid!!! I wish her and her Daddy long, happy lives.

Excellent story, Stinky. Great timing and geography ....................

[hootinholler]

5. Just about at the geographic center of the two sites.

I live very near one (Middletown) and IIRC you live near the other.

-Hoot