Derrick Nelson, who served his community as the principal of Westfield High School in New Jersey, didn’t hesitate to offer his bone marrow in order to save the life of a 14-year old teenager living in France who was a stranger to him.
The 44-year-old man never realized that the sacrifice he was making would involve his own life.
His father reports that following the procedure to harvest Derrick’s life-saving marrow, he was lying in his hospital bed but was unable to speak. Read the full story here ▶
