Donor no longer a stranger Suburban man meets the recipient of his life-saving bone marrow.(News)

0 Comments | Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), September, 2004 | by Hooker, Sara

Byline: Sara Hooker Daily Herald Staff Writer Some say you live with the decisions you make for a lifetime. And sometimes those decisions could give someone a lifetime to live. That's why two strangers - one a donor and the other a recipient - came together for the first time at Sunday's Bone Marrow Picnic at Loyola University Medical Center.

Carol Stream resident Matt Wilcoxen anonymously donated his bone marrow in April 2003 to Dr. Peter Dumich, a surgeon from Champaign who had been battling non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. "There's a person whose life was being held in the balance, and here I was, a person who could help extend their life," Wilcoxen said. "I thought, 'You know, I've never done this before; this seems like something I'm supposed to do.' "...