This is a true inspiring story that I read in the papers a few days back which shows that humanity has still not diminished from the society.
In 2000, after 31 years of robust health, James Chippendale, a wealthy dallas business executive, who had traveled much of the world, was found to be suffering from a lethal form of leukemia.james”s doctors told him that the only chance of his survival was a bone marrow transplant and that the likelihood of finding a matching donor seemed bleak.
It was a very hard match for james and he couldn’t find any in the United States, so his doctors had to find it on international registry.
More than 5,000 miles and a world away, Klaus Kaiser, a man who repairs bicycles in a german village, had unsuccessfully tried to be a marrow donor for a friend with a blood disorder. Each year Kaiser received a form asking if he wanted to continue being listed on the donor registry and each year he checked the box marking YES.
One fine day, accurately on sophisticated medical computer screens, Kaiser’s marrow seemed a perfect match for James. In November 2000, doctors extracted marrow from Kaiser’s hip bone and flew it 5,214 miles to dallas where james with his medical team waited anxiously at Baylor university medical centre. The bone marrow transplant was a success and today james Chippendale said, his doctors tell him that he is cancer free.
Two years after the transplant, Kaiser received a telephone call from the donor organization that had found him. They asked if he wanted to get to know the person who received the bone marrow. Kaiser was so happy to know it then that it had helped someone because he didn’t know it before.
A short time later, a letter appeared in Kaiser’s mail box in gutter, a small town of 150 people west of berlin.Kaiser did not speak or read English, he did not have to so james had a friend translate into german the words he had written to the man who had saved his life. When the letter arrived, Kaiser said it felt like a close family member emerged from somewhere. But james knew that a letter could not begin to express his gratitude. He enrolled in night classes to learn as much german as he could and then he bought a plane ticket.James”s arrival in gutter in early 2003 was cause for village wide celebration, with songs and beer lifted high. The whole family of Kaiser was there. They were full of joy when they met james in person. Kaiser said I feel like james is my blood brother. After the transplant Kaiser said that the physician thanked me for the donation in the name of mankind. I am very proud of james .He tries to give the world back what he got from me. I am very happy that we have become such great friends for life.
