Jour +516 : Meet my Donor

About a month after I contacted the Canadian Blood Services and asked them to send my name and contact information to my then-anonymous donor, I heard back that my good samaritan was named Brad Cooke.


I contacted Brad by e-mail and I learned that he is Canadian and lives within a 4 hour drive from our home... so much for our speculations that my donor was European!

I also found out how Brad got on the donor list and heard about some of the details of the marrow harvest procedure. It seems this was not a bump-free process, and I am just the more grateful to him for his selfless gesture. Here's a recent picture of him. You can have access to his blog from here.

A big surprise was that Brad is an electrical engineer working in Wireless, just like me! It turns out we have common professional acquaintances, and that he has contacts at Nortel. I guess I shouldn't be surprised by the graft compatibility that has blessed me so far.