She said: “Our buddies and household in London and Bristol have rallied close to, asking what they can do to assist, and currently at least twenty of them joined the Anthony Nolan donor register straight away.
“Any one of them could be a match for an individual like Mike who requirements a donor. It is so effortless and easy to signal up.
“We started out pondering that if we channel our energies into getting our buddies, and close friends of buddies, and even strangers, to join the register, we could make a huge distinction.”
Mr Brandon proposed to Miss Robertson, 31, 3 weeks ahead of she headed off on a six-month backpacking journey at the start off of the year.
Just two months later he started out struggling from fatigue and evening sweats.
He visited the doctor who carried out blood tests and inside of 4 hrs he learnt he had acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.
Miss Robertson, a physiotherapist from Bristol, received the devastating news in a phone phone from Mr Brandon when she was 5000 miles from property in Burma.
She quickly flew property to be at his side.
“I had been due to go on a 3 week trek in Nepal the following day, so if the news had come a day later, Mike wouldn’t have been capable to attain me for weeks,” Miss Robertson stated.
“Thankfully I got the message in time and after a grueling ten hour bus journey, twelve hour wait in Yangon, two eleven hour flights and a three hour auto journey I was ultimately by his side.”
The pair are presently living with close friends in Bristol,
Oxford Brookes graduate Mr Brandon has undergone a very first round of chemotherapy at Bristol Royal Infirmary, with a far more intensive course due in Might 2014.
As he has been diagnosed with the sub-variety [Philadephia +] type of the ailment, his prognosis is somewhat worse than initially imagined and he requirements a stem cell transplant imminently.
Miss Robertson has only just lately recovered from the horror of dropping her father, grandmother and father and close loved ones pal in the area of just eight months in 2005.
A yr which Miss Robertson branded: “2005, let’s try out and remain alive.”
She met Mr Brandon in 2009 and claims he assisted her recover from this tragedy and turned her daily life around.
Now she is established to be his “rock” and conserve the man she loves.
She said: “Mike now has so considerably ahead of him – a new task, a wedding ceremony and creating a family members – but he desperately demands to uncover a matching stem cell donor so that he can emphasis on getting better and embrace his long term.”
Please support Mr Brandon and other people by joining the Anthony Nolan register at www.anthonynolan.org.
Bride-to-be has 60 days to uncover her fiancé a stem cell donor
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