3-year-old cancer survivor is asked to be flower girl in bone marrow donor's wedding
Wedding ceremonies witnessed by family and friends are truly one of the best moments in our lives. It’s a day of celebrating and cherishing love. There’s nothing more beautiful than that.
Skye Savren-McCormick made Hayden Hatfield Ryals’ wedding even more beautiful. She walked down the aisle for the woman who saved her young life. Both bride and toddler were beaming.
The three-year-old cancer survivor attended Hayden’s wedding. Hayden is Skye’s bone marrow donor and the woman who saved her young life.
The charming little lady was diagnosed with Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia in March 2016, just a few days before she celebrated her first birthday.
It was in that same year that Skye found a donor. The donor was Hayden, and Skye had her first bone marrow transplant.
Skye’s mother, Talia, shared that her daughter would never have made it to her final transplant nor live, had it not been for Hayden’s selfless act.
“She was that sick,” Talia shared. “I feel like Hayden is such a huge success in why Skye was able to beat leukemia.”
Skye’s parents, Talia and Todd ,received a letter from Hayden a few months after Skye’s successful transplant. Hayden reached out to Skye through the Be The Match, the organization from which Skye received her bone marrow.
Skye and Hayden became good friends and they continued exchanging messages through texts and Facebook through Skye’s mother. Hayden even sent a gift on Skye’s third birthday.
Inside the gift was a card, inviting and asking the adorable little girl to attend her wedding and be one of her flower girls.
After doctors gave their go-ahead, Skye with her parents traveled to Alabama. During the wedding rehearsals, Skye and Hayden finally got to meet each other in person.
“I always tell people they’re smitten for one another,” Talia shared. “Skye calls her ‘Hay Hay.’”
Hayden remembered how she reacted the first time she met Skye.
“I walked up and I just dropped to my knees and all I could do was smile.”
Skye walked down the aisle on June 9, 2018 as a lovely flower girl of her bone marrow donor, Hayden. And of course both girls loved it!
“They are going to be part of our lives forever,” Talia added. “She saved our daughter’s life.”
As horrible as cancer is, it brought out the beauty and kindness of the human spirit, which in turn blossomed into a wonderful friendship.
It gets better.
Skye Savren-McCormick just met her second bone marrow donor, one year after serving as an adorable flower girl.
Todd and Talia, met donor Ricky Currier, a 25-year-old resident application engineer from Greensboro, North Carolina. Skye’s final transplant was in April 2017 and from Currier.
Today, Skye is two years cancer-free, and it’s all thanks to Ryals and Currier’s bone marrow donations. Skye’s heart continues to beat thanks to Hayden and Ricky.
Skye is now cancer-free thanks to two selfless people. Watch the video below to see this beautiful little girl walk down the aisle for her donor.
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Source: My Positive Outlooks