In an emotional meeting, a little girl and her family came face to face with the stranger who saved her life.
Last month, Alle Jilg and her parents, Tia and Mike Jilg, met Jacob Oswald -- a father of two from Iowa whose bone marrow donation was a match for Alle.
With her immune system weak, Alle needed a bone marrow transplant to survive. She underwent chemotherapy to prepare her body for the transplant which took place February 28, 2018. And on May 31, both the Jilgs and Oswalds met in person at Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center at Nebraska Medicine in Omaha."It felt like we've known him forever," mom Tia Jilg told"GMA." With Jacob he's a family member to us and we'd like to make trips to see him and his family. They're amazing."
Dr. Sachit Patel, pediatric hematologist-oncologist at Nebraska Medicine said without Oswald, none of this would've been possible.
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