Would you give up your collegiate career to donate bone marrow to a leukemia sufferer?
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By HELEN POW
A University of New Hampshire shot put star is being hailed a hero after he quit his final athletics season so he can donate bone marrow to a stranger suffering leukemia. Like the rest of his track and field team, Cameron Lyle, 21, of Plaistow, joined the bone marrow registry in his sophomore year and a few weeks ago, he learned he was a 100 per cent match for a 28-year-old man who has just been given six months to live.
But donating his bone marrow to the anonymous recipient means he'll have to miss the final two meets of his career, including the America East Championships. The decision, however, was a no-brainer, he said.
'I knew right away I was definitely going to donate,' Lyle told the Eagle Tribune. 'I was pretty terrified at first, but it is starting to settle in. 'They told me it was a one in five million chance of me being a match for a non-family member. They gave me the timeline and everything's been moving quickly after that.'
The recipient, who is suffering from acute lymphoblastic leukemia, and Lyle are required by law to remain anonymous to each other for one year. 'He has six months to live and I have the possibility to buy him a couple more years,' Lyle told the newspaper. But that responsibility means he'll be unable to lift more than 20 pounds over his head for a few weeks, ruling out throwing the discus, hammer and shot put in the championships. The athlete's mother and team coach were both extremely supportive of his decision.
'He's my hero,' his mom Christine Sciacca said. 'I couldn't be more proud of him and how he's been so humble about it.'
But Lyle said he felt like he had been called into the principal's office when he went to tell his coach, Jim Boulanger, the news. But he needn't have worried. 'I told him, "you either do 12 throws at the conference championships, or you give another man a few more years,"' Boulanger told the Eagle Tribune. 'It was easy for me.' Lyle is undergoing the surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston later this month. After a year, Lyle and the recipient will both have the choice to sign consent forms to reveal their identities. 'I'd love to meet him some day,' Lyle said. 'He's not that much older than myself. I just can't imagine what he's going through.'
Would you give up your collegiate career to donate bone marrow to a leukemia sufferer? 18 votes
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NoHell no.
And doing the shot put ain't ? .
Bet if he hooped or played football he wouldn't have -
NoLmao ? No!....*Insert ain't nobody got time for that gif*
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Not to no damn stranger
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I wouldn't even give up my parking spot to a handicap person!
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It's just two weeks, so maybe.
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And even if you wouldn't do it you got to admit that what he did is admirable.
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NoTo you ? that said yes.
Yall don't even play college sports and didn't give up something like that.
Donating blood don't count ? . -
Damn thats some good ? .. but idk probably to a close friend and a family member.
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Shizlansky wrote: »To you ? that said yes.
Yall don't even play college sports and didn't give up something like that.
Donating blood don't count ? .
He didn't give up his career. He gave up the last little bit of this season. -
YesShizlansky wrote: »To you ? that said yes.
Yall don't even play college sports and didn't give up something like that.
Donating blood don't count ? .
I played tennis in college -
NoYoung_Chitlin wrote: »Shizlansky wrote: »To you ? that said yes.
Yall don't even play college sports and didn't give up something like that.
Donating blood don't count ? .
I played tennis in college
Played.
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Yesat the end of the day, sports is just a game.
And I was a college level athlete. Not a very good one, but I still was one. -
shot put star
thats like a table tennis star
foh -
If ? was a star player or starter on a Final Four team or a team in the NCG in football this would be a story. Nobody GAF about shot put.
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YesYeah why not. It's weird as ? , but I find pleasure in helping people.
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NoSo yall must have gave someone bone marrow already.
Cuz it makes no sense to say you would have cuz nothing stopping you from doing it right now.
I bet none of you ? even gave plasma, and they pay you for that. -
Close Friend or Family Member yes stranger ? no
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NoI don't even know if it was a close family member I would...
"I mean... You like what, 57 now, pops? You had had a good life right? Already beat the average black man life expectancy." -
NoYou gotta do that procedure wide awake, no anaesthesia, while they drill a hole in your leg all the way thru the bone.
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It's some cold blooded folks in here I tell you. A game being more important than a life.
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Nodallas' 4 eva wrote: »It's some cold blooded folks in here I tell you. A game being more important than a life.
Whenever you go under the knife bad ? can happen. Hell you might not recover properly.