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Woman awaits the kindness of strangers - ILLNESS: Great-grandmother in Santa Clarita is in need of bone marrow transplant.

To register as a donor, visit www.dkmsamericas.org . SANTA CLARITA - When her first great-granddaughter was born, Teresa Ramos wanted nothing more than to hold her in her arms.

But the 64-year-old matriarch was hospitalized for acute leukemia last month - a week before Kimberly Vanessa was born. Now awaiting a potential bone marrow donor, she hasn't yet seen little Kimberly Vanessa.

"Our biggest thing right now, our only hope, is to find a bone marrow donor," said her daughter, Teresa Perez, 26, of Canyon Country. "She talks all the time about seeing Kimberly."

Ramos, who suffers from acute myeloid leukemia, has only one possible chance of survival: a bone marrow transplant.

Because she has no relatives with matching tissue, she must depend on the kindness of strangers.

Her most likely match would be another Latino, experts say. But Latinos make up 10 percent of the bone marrow registry and her chances of getting a donor are slim   Read Full Article...