Mel Mann

Yeah, I was shocked because, you know, that's the first time that I had to face my own mortality.

And I would take my daughter with me.

So she understood that I needed a match to live.

In fact, one of the drives, she couldn't be more than probably still five.

She says, Daddy, I can't see why you can't find a match.

All the blood looks the same to me.

Immediately, you're going to think of your family.

And I thought, you know, how old she's going to be at the end of three years.

And it was eight years.

And, you know, I was trying to bargain for more.

By then, I was, like, really tired.

You know, I would sleep for eight hours, drink two cups of coffee, wake up and feel like I never went to bed.

I had become, like, really lost a lot of weight.

So I asked the doctor, were there any more drugs?

And I did it in a pretty decent time, too.

I'm just thankful for the physicians who I know had to burn a lot of midnight oil to make it happen.

And the researchers and people who were involved in the whole process.

The people at the sites, the people who crunched the numbers.

There's so many people that I have to be thankful for.

So it means a lot.