http://www.unionleader.com/article/20130423/SPORTS22/130429686
By ALLEN LESSELS
New Hampshire Union Leader
Cameron Lyle, a University of New Hampshire track and field athlete from Plaistow, looked forward to wrapping up his competitive career with his best results ever in the America East championships early next month.
No longer.
Instead, Lyle is scheduled to be at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston Wednesday morning, intent on giving an ill young man he does not know a better chance to live. Lyle was due at the hospital at 6 a.m. for a procedure that will begin the process of donating his bone marrow.
Lyle passed on his final chances to compete after he was told about a month ago by a representative of the National Marrow Donor Program that he was a rare match for a 28-year-old who is stricken with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, an aggressive cancer.
"My first reaction was 'yes,' when they told me on the phone," Lyle said Tuesday afternoon. "After that, I did think about what I was giving up. But the kid who has leukemia has it a lot worse than me. This kid is dying."
There is little time to waste, and there was no chance to squeeze in the championship meet.
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