Local bone marrow recipient and Donor meet for the first time live on Today Show
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We all feel like the pandemic robbed us of some important life events and milestones. For a woman in Washington state, her missed moment was meeting the stranger who saved her life through organ donation.
Tia Jensen was finally able to meet her donor, after months of trying to connect, live on NBC’s Today Show thanks to the morning show’s “Missed Moments” segment.
Jensen, who has lived with Multiple Sclerosis for two decades, was also diagnosed with leukemia in 2018. Doctors in Seattle told her she would need a bone marrow transplant if she had any hope of remission. The search began to find a match.
Meanwhile in Idaho, Tappe was going through challenges of his own. He had recently moved from Oregon and found himself at what he called an “all-time low” battling depression and anxiety. That’s when a “Be the Match” bone marrow registry video popped up while he was scrolling through social media.
He decided to sign up. Low and behold he matched Jensen and was able to give the life saving gift of bone marrow donation. However, they were still strangers at the time.
Months after the successful transplant, Jensen tried reaching out to Gage. They were able to connect online, but the pandemic kept them from meeting face to face.
She wrote into NBC, hoping to be part of their “Missed Moments” segment. Producers agreed, it was a moment worth making up.
The two met, donor and recipient, for the first time on live TV. To end the segment, Jensen thanked Tappe by starting a bone marrow registry drive in her donor’s name, asking viewers to “Be Like Gage” and joining the “Be The Match” registry.
Learn more by texting BeLikeGage to 61474 or visit www.bethematch.org
Tia Jensen was finally able to meet her donor, after months of trying to connect, live on NBC’s Today Show thanks to the morning show’s “Missed Moments” segment.
Jensen, who has lived with Multiple Sclerosis for two decades, was also diagnosed with leukemia in 2018. Doctors in Seattle told her she would need a bone marrow transplant if she had any hope of remission. The search began to find a match.
Meanwhile in Idaho, Tappe was going through challenges of his own. He had recently moved from Oregon and found himself at what he called an “all-time low” battling depression and anxiety. That’s when a “Be the Match” bone marrow registry video popped up while he was scrolling through social media.
He decided to sign up. Low and behold he matched Jensen and was able to give the life saving gift of bone marrow donation. However, they were still strangers at the time.
Months after the successful transplant, Jensen tried reaching out to Gage. They were able to connect online, but the pandemic kept them from meeting face to face.
She wrote into NBC, hoping to be part of their “Missed Moments” segment. Producers agreed, it was a moment worth making up.
The two met, donor and recipient, for the first time on live TV. To end the segment, Jensen thanked Tappe by starting a bone marrow registry drive in her donor’s name, asking viewers to “Be Like Gage” and joining the “Be The Match” registry.
Learn more by texting BeLikeGage to 61474 or visit www.bethematch.org
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