The news has been met with an outpouring of grief, especially from his students.
A beloved school principle died after donating bone marrow to help save the life of a French teenager he never met.
It was also determined that Nelson was a carrier for sickle cell anemia, so doctors were forced to scrap plans to harvest the stem cells intravenously. ‘We really don’t know the full story of what happened. We were expecting him to come out of the coma he was in. But he didn’t make it,’ the grieving father continued.As Nelson remained unresponsive in his hospital room, his wife, Sheronda, and the couple’s six-year-old daughter kept vigil in his room in the hope he would recover, until the principal succumbed to his illness.
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