Now, 15 years later, Anthony has finally met Patti and Sam Bosque, the mother and son who donated the umbilical cord blood that saved his life. Patti told ABC News she doesn't remember much about her son, Sam Bosque's birth, and completely forgot she donated his umbilical cord's blood to the New York Blood Center's Cord Blood Program. So they checked the New York Blood Center's Cord Blood Program, a public bank for donated umbilical cord blood and found an anonynmousA month later, doctors performed a stem cell transplant on Anthony, a procedure that saved his life. 'When I donated the cord blood, I thought it was going to be used more for research. 'I don't think she understand the magnitude of what her decision [to donate her son't cord blood] did.'

Source: Daily Mail January 22, 2018 21:26 UTC