Paul or PD as we call him is one of the most amazing people I know. He's in the hospital right now fighting for his life. While waiting for the desperately needed bone marrow transplant he got a fungus in his lungs and now he's trying to recover from that enough so that he can start the process of destroying what's left of his existing bone marrow so that he can have the new transplant marrow from a donor in switzerland. Finding a donor with so many matching requirements is rare and they found one. This man is an angel for PD. PD deserves one in his court because he has been one for others.

PD has been a selfless little brother. He sacrificed his own health to try and save not just one but two of his older sisters. In 1988 he donated his bone marrow through the process of extraction which meant they had to screw through the bone to extract marrow over 100 times. (When I was tested to see who I matched they extracted some of my marrow and the process is extremely uncomfortable. I can still feel where they did the procedure. I can only imagine the pain he must have gone through for his sisters) After that extruciating experience the marrow didn't graft, so he donated again. The poor guy limped and had a hard time sitting and sleeping for a long time because they extracted the marrow from the bones from his upper backside. Unfortunately, it didn't take again and my sister Paula died in the BMT Unit in California.

In 1991 he donated his bone marrow again through the extraction style now for the third time. This time for Michelle. Shortly after healing from that surgery, and was there supporting my sister while she suffered through all the horrific procedures they did in the BMT experience, she did not graft. This was devastating. PD didn't hesitate he jumped and was preparing to do the surgery again, when to all of our dismay, my sister died from a fungal infection in her lungs.

He has been so selfless and supportive his whole life. When my brother Mathew was in the hospital in 2003 for his bone marrow transplant, Paul sat by his side day after day after day. He couldn't donate his marrow this time because he wasn't a match, he would have at the drop of the hat. My sister Joleen donated her stem T-cells a new way that marrow is harvested. This time the BMT worked and Mathew survived. Now Mathew is returning the favor and is being there for PD for his BMT.

Paul has been a loving kind person. He deserves to have this transplant work. He deserves to recover and to live a full life. May God please please bless this young man and give him a long life.