WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) - A Delaware City man who received a non-relative bone marrow transplant in 1991 was able to fulfill a 19-year-old pact at his daughter’s wedding with the donor.
WWL-TV (https://bit.ly/1bRs0Q5 ) reports Rick Haines’ daughter, Marissa, was married Saturday in Wilmington. Donor Ian Brown, who is from England, attended the wedding and escorted Haines’ wife, fulfilling a promise he made when the two met for the first time in 1996.
Haines says when they met he asked Brown if there was anything he could do to repay him. Brown replied that he wanted to be there when Haines walked his daughter, who was 8 or 9 at the time, down the aisle.
Haines was diagnosed with aplastic anemia in 1990. Brown joined a bone marrow registry and his blood matched with Haines.
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