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Posy branches out
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NORTH VAN RCMP TO HOST DONOR DRIVE THURSDAY
Cops raise call for stem cell donor
Lynn Valley mom with leukemia in need of life-saving transplant BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com
After spending decades serving the North Shore, Nancy Taylor is now in need of help.
The longtime Lynn Valley resident and volunteer with North Vancouver RCMP’s community policing division was diagnosed with cancer late last year and is in need of a life-saving stem cell donor. Canadian Blood Services and the North Vancouver RCMP are hosting a stem cell drive at the 14th Street detachment Thursday in hopes of finding a match for Taylor – and to beef up the stem cell registry. “I ended up just going to the hospital on Nov. 15, just ready to faint. That’s when they told me I had leukemia,” Taylor said.
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Taylor started chemotherapy the next day. “I take 20 pills probably every day and every fourth day, I get chemo through my spine and brain and the three days after that, I get chemo through intravenous,” she said. More than weathering the illness and damaging effects of the chemo, Taylor must also contend with the shock of the diagnosis. “It’s like a rollercoaster. I try to be really strong and positive and every so often, I’ll just break down and cry,” she said. But
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