Unstoppable Testimonies

Hello! My name is Álvaro and I was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia in 2011. I was very tired, my body was begging me to sleep and everyone was telling that I didn’t look so good. He was 42 years old and my lifestyle was very hectic. I had just got divorced and was working a lot. But one day, my mother’s husband told me to go to the hospital. He was very pale and thin and did not look overly healthy.

I was tested and they immediately saw that I had leukaemia. I needed a bone marrow transplant. Did you know that only 1 in 4 patients who need a transplant have a compatible family member? Well, I, who have 6 siblings, didn’t have a single one that was compatible. So the Josep Carreras Foundation found an anonymous donor for me.

This process was very hard, but it taught me something that I don’t want to forget: the importance of the HERE and the NOW.

If you want to know more about my story, you can chat with me here: https://chats.fcarreras.org/diarioalvaro

I’m Unstoppable!

Álvaro