A cancer survivor set up a surprise meeting - with the stem cell donor who saved her life.
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00:00It's been a long time coming, but we're all here today to meet her and say a massive thank
00:13you.
00:14Can I just give you a hug?
00:15Oh my God.
00:16Lovely to meet you.
00:17Lovely to meet you.
00:18Bless you.
00:19Oh my God.
00:20Oh my God.
00:21Oh my God.
00:22Oh my God.
00:23Oh my God.
00:24Oh my God.
00:25Oh my God.
00:26Oh my God.
00:27Oh my God.
00:28Oh my God.
00:29Oh my God, I can't believe it.
00:30Is she lovely to see you?
00:31I'm so shocked.
00:34It's one of the greatest days of me life, to sit in this room now, and meet her, and
00:39understand her motivation and her drive to do such an incredible thing to save somebody's
00:45life.
00:49Oh, thank you.
00:51Well there is no need, I'm just delighted you're okay.
00:56So weird, like I walked in, like I obviously
00:59I've never seen you before, but as soon as you said you don't know me, I just felt it, it was so weird, I was like I know who this lady is.
01:06But I'm so, so proud of her because she's done an amazing thing and when I see the family there now,
01:12and I don't think any of us will ever forget this because, like I say, I do feel that we're all family now.
01:18I think Alison is amazing, like whatever I went through, she's gone through way worse.
01:29She's a fighter, she's strong, she's absolutely amazing and I'm proud of her, proud of her recovery, proud of her tenacity
01:38and I'm just, I'm so thankful that she reached out to meet me.
01:41Donating stem cells to me was important because my father suffered with ill health all his life.
01:47He's received multiple donations and if it wasn't for kind donators, he wouldn't be around today.
01:53So it means everything to me.
01:56There can never be enough thank yous, there can never be enough words to express, obviously, somebody doing something like that.
02:07Sometimes it feels like I've just sat in and looked on somebody else's life.
02:12And I just think, I cannot believe that I went through that, it's so strange, it's so surreal.
02:19Best thing I've ever done, to see how well she's doing, to meet her family, it's unbelievable.
02:27People like me need stem cell donors to survive, and you know, it's saving somebody's life, you could be somebody's hero.
02:38So, yeah, I think it's an amazing thing.