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College Athlete Cuts Career Short To Save Stranger's Life
« on: April 30, 2013, 04:43:36 pm »
http://www.today.com/health/i-never-had-second-thought-college-athlete-cuts-career-short-6C9670404#

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Cameron Lyle has asked a lot of his body over the years, but he never expected it to save the life of a stranger.

A shot put star on the University of New Hampshire track and field team, Lyle was at the pinnacle of his collegiate athletic career when he had to make a profound decision.

A man with blood cancer was desperate for healthy bone marrow and Lyle was the only match on a national registry of potential donors. The only problem: if Lyle decided to donate, it would mean missing some of the most important track meets of his senior season.

Faced with cutting his career short, Lyle focused only on the chance to save someone’s life.

“I was surprised, I was pretty happy. I said yes right away,” Lyle, 21, told TODAY. “And then afterwards I thought about everything that that meant giving up, but I never had a second thought about donating. If I had said no, he wouldn’t have had a match.”


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Re: College Athlete Cuts Career Short To Save Stranger's Life
« Reply #1 on: April 30, 2013, 08:32:22 pm »
Yeah. Beautiful guy!
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Re: College Athlete Cuts Career Short To Save Stranger's Life
« Reply #2 on: April 30, 2013, 09:12:31 pm »
I read this earlier today. It helps to restore a little bit of my faith in humanity.

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Re: College Athlete Cuts Career Short To Save Stranger's Life
« Reply #3 on: April 30, 2013, 10:44:17 pm »
Wow... that's an amazing story. It's not often you see someone willing to give up so much to help someone. Especially someone they don't even know.

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Re: College Athlete Cuts Career Short To Save Stranger's Life
« Reply #4 on: May 01, 2013, 12:20:25 pm »
We need more people like this in the world.
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