Family hopes Be a Match event will lead to cure for 8-year-old boy s leukemia
Jennifer Holton reports
TAMPA, Fla. - Receiving a life-changing diagnosis can turn a family’s world upside down. Kobe Washington, an 8-year-old boy from Punta Gorda, was diagnosed with leukemia just over six months ago. He and his family have been fighting hard, but now they’re hoping the kindness of strangers may save Kobe’s life.
Kobe learned he had T-cell lymphoblastic leukemia back in August. And with chemotherapy no longer working, he’s in desperate need of a blood stem cell transplant. Right now, there is no one in the system that is matching him to be a donor for him, said his mother, Imeria.