Heroic college student gives up dream of athletics career to donate bone marrow to stranger | TIME.com: Lyle was a 100% match — a one in four million chance — with a patient who only has six months left to live. “I knew right away I was definitely going to donate,” he told the Massachusetts Eagle Tribune. “I was pretty terrified at first, but it is starting to settle in.”
The procedure meant, however, that he would be unable to lift more than 20 pounds over his head for a few weeks, which would prevent him from taking part in the final two meets of the year, including the America East Championships, where he was hoping to throw shot put.
