Karel Špaček provided a bone marrow and saved life of Jana Vršecká

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18. 8. 2015 - Jan Čada

How does it come, that so nice girl has to be so ill? Instead of unrepeatable growing-up and first loves she gets only months and months spent in hospitals, losing hobbies, interest, friends... Is this what she deserves? But no, the sun still shines on!

Mrs. Jana Vršecká (31) from Prague is on this world thanks to Mr. Karel Špaček. His blood together with skills of medicals from hospitals in Pilsen and Prague returned Jana back to life. It's been now 14 years since the transplantation. Today Jana has fully-fledged life like her friends. She works in a private medical facility.

Thanks to the campaign Rally to marrow this pair of nice people again after many years meets face to face. They want to support the idea of widening the marrow donors' list during the Barum Czech Rally Zlín.

"I honestly want to thank to Karel. Really a lot, I wish him mainly good health," remembers Jana who was back in 2000, after suffering hepatitis, diagnosed with aplastic anaemia. In 17 years of age her chances for further living weren't good at all.

"We are really grateful, but it's so hard to explain. Thanks to Karel at first – because of Jana he went through a medical intervention which many others were afraid of. He is a true hero for us," said Jana's mother.

"Hero is someone who saves small child from a burning house. I just offered my bone marrow and it was luck that it could be used. I would do it anytime again, the intervention is almost painful and I'm really lucky that I could help right this pleasant woman," said with modesty Karel Špaček, a worker from Continental Barum company in Otrokovice.

Every fourth patient never finds a suitable donor. What if it is you who can save someone's life?

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