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A pilot raced through the airport to surprise the woman who saved his life

When Allie Reimold boarded Flight 2223 in Houston, she didn’t expect to see the pilot whose life she had saved.

Donors and patients are matched based on inherited genes called human leukocyte antigens, which carry the code for markers that the body uses to know which cells belong. On December 21, 2016 – when the winter solstice blanketed Texas with more than 14 hours of darkness – doctors at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas injected Allie’s bone marrow stem cells into David’s arm, he said. The pair would catch up every year on the anniversary of David’s transplant, said Allie, who donated peripheral blood stem cells again in 2018 to a different recipient and has encouraged others to consider joining the bone marrow registry.

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