Leukemia victim meets marrow donor who saved his life
Published: September 8, 2003
A Highland Park man had a special guest at a picnic yesterday in Maywood.
Barry Schatz’s guest was Lori Citron of Kansas City, the bone marrow donor who saved his life last year. They had never met before.
The 48-year-old Schatz, who is an associate director at the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, was diagnosed with leukemia two years ago. He needed a bone marrow transplant, and tests showed that the 34-year-old Citron was the only match out of five (m) million potential donors.
Citron, who is a life insurance adjuster had volunteered as a bone marrow donor in 1996 when a friend was diagnosed with leukemia. She was not a match for her friend, who died a year later, but she was a match for Schatz.
The marrow transplant was performed in June of last year.
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