North Shore News: NV family puts out plea for marrow donor
No match for mom in database of millions
That's the rallying cry a North Vancouver father has taught his two sons, 2 and 5, to encourage the "good cells" to vanquish the "bad cells" that have attacked their mom.
The mantra is Harley Harris's way of showing defiance to the cancer that has raced through his wife's body in the space of a few weeks. His wife, Erica, is fighting to hold off the disease until a bone marrow donor can be found, but with a database of millions of potential matches exhausted and the illness showing no signs of abating, time may be running out.