SAN PEDRO, California, December 3, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – A California mother of three facing leukemia while expecting twins received news last week that may save her life after tens of thousands stepped up to potentially donate bone marrow.
Susie Rabaca was praying for a perfect match so she could stay alive for her kids. She is due December 6 with her twins and needs a bone marrow transplant to save her life.
“I was devastated, emotionally devastated,” she told NBC News, regarding learning her diagnosis months ago.
Rabaca’s sister is a 50 percent match, but doctors said the match wasn’t sufficient to treat her cancer, an aggressive form of acute myeloid leukemia.
She needs a 100 percent match, but Rabaca’s mixed heritage – Latina and Caucasian – has made finding a match problematic. No one from some 30 million people registered worldwide was a complete match for her.
Rabaca, with the help of daughter Riley, made an online plea for more possible donors.
Her story went viral, and since then more than 50,000 people registered with the national marrow donor program Be The Match, a record-breaking number.
She received word of a 100 percent match Wednesday.
“Oh, my God,
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