February 14th is National Donor Day. These inspiring stories demonstrate the true heroism of donating.
Cameron Lyle, a college track athlete, chose to end his career to donate bone marrow to a stranger.
Lyle, a 1 in 5,000,000 match to a young man with acute lymphoblastic lymphoma, generously gave up his shot-put career to save a stranger.
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Tom Walter, the head coach of baseball at Wake Forest, donated his kidney to one of his players.
When freshman player Kevin Jordan's kidney function dropped below 8 %, coach Tom Walter stepped forward. Now both are healthy, baseball-obsessed, and "joined at the hip."
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