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| SUCCESS STORIES |
 Miracles happen every day. Sometimes we do not recognise a miracle until long afterwards. Every miracle is a Gift from God. I would like to share just a few of our miracles with you. On my 33rd birthday, our third child and first son was born, seven years after his sister. He lived a happy, healthy and mischievous childhood. At the age of 15 he was diagnosed with a brain tumour. Because it was situated in the speech centre of the brain, everyone was loath to touch it. Another miracle - a young SA neurologist was on the point of returning to SA. He had spent time in Canada perfecting speech tracing during a Craniotomy. Our Cameron became the flagship for this now popular, highly successful procedure... read more... |
 In July 2001 I was diagnosed with leukemia. My chances seemed slim. The cancer had spread to my central nervous system and after diagnosis I was not even allowed home. I was booked in and treatment began immediately. The next two years of my life were the hardest. My daughter Maxine was only six and my son Finley was two and a half. I spent a lot of time in hospital and seemed to pick up every infection possible. It took many searches and disappointments before a donor was found for me. My husband Bob started a drive for donors and arranged for various doctors and nurses to collect blood from people willing to become donors. We are involved in a private school and the parents were amazing. Many people become donors and people prayed constantly for me! Bob put together a cycling team called the Miles for Marrow team and up until today these riders and more have joined the cause of making people aware of the need for donors. read more... |
 My name is Shaun Watts. I was diagnosed with CML (Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia) in January 1996 at the age of 36. 1996 was to be a year of change for us. In January 1996, we returned home to Johannesburg , South Africa after a wonderful and relaxing 6 week vacation in New Zealand . Earlier the previous year, we had successfully applied to immigrate to New Zealand and it was required that we visit New Zealand to secure our residence visa's. We toured all over the North Island in a mobile camper, loved what we saw and experienced and decided to give ourselves a year to wind up our lives in South Africa, pack up our bags and immigrate to 'greener' pastures. |
STEVEN CLAPP
I had a Bone Marrow transplant on May 31 st 2001. I had Anaplastic Lymphoma T Cell of an aggressive nature. I had 2 C.H.O.P (combination chemo, very high doses) treatments; the nurses even remarked that they were giving me a much high doses of chemo, than they were used to. A donor could not be found in my family and I am not sure where the Bone Marrow that was used came from, but I was fortunate enough to find a donor on the registry. I was very ill as a result of the chemo which is often the case. I held the record at the Bone Marrow unit of Constantiaberg Medi-Clinic as days post transplant before going home, I have never been back since for any infection. |