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Last December, I read the news on Ta-Ai TV that Tzu Chi General Hospital just got the 1000th matched bone marrow. I felt extremely happy like other volunteers. What's more, I had never expected that I would receive the courier who came to collect the 1000th bone marrow.
When the American courier met me at the Taipei Airport, he said to me, “Christine, do you know what has happened today?” I had no ready answer in mind. He continued, “The bone marrow I carried was the 1000th case of your hospital.” Wow, that was really something indeed. I could not wait to tell other Foreign Language Team members how lucky I was.
Life is full of surprise. I was still intoxicated with the happiness of the 1000th case. This Tuesday I got another special case. It was not the first time I picked up four couriers at one time, but two groups of them collected four bags of stem cells this time. There were four lives totally. How significant the mission was!
It was amazing that one of the two bone marrow donors was making her second donation. One year ago when she was to make her first donation, there were two matched patients on the list, but as one donor could only save one patient at a time, the other patient would have to wait then. After a year of hopeful waiting, he finally got his life back from leukemia.
And the other two donors were heroes, too. They had donated their bone marrows and this time they were to donate their leukocytes.
I wonder if they have been influenced by Tzu Chi’s teaching of love. Or were they simply born with kind hearts? Their brave act of giving successfully saves four families. I feel privileged to hear these wonderful and touching stories, though the picking-up could be tiring sometimes.
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