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In 2010, Ben Clark from Bronson, Iowa, was diagnosed with a rare blood cancer. He received treatment and went into remission, but the cancer came back, so Ben started working with an international nonprofit to find a stem cell donor. A couple of years ago, Jan Rolfes from Sweden, signed up to donate his stem cells. As a child, a friend of his died from Leukemia, so Jan understood the value of his donation.
In the midst of planning for his upcoming wedding to his fiancée, Jayme Uhl, Ben got the call that Jan had matched with him and would be giving him his stem cells. After receiving the lifesaving stem cell donation, the couple wanted to thank Jan for his selfless act, so they invited him to come to their wedding. But then Ben got a better idea: he’d ask Jan to be his best man. “Who else better to be your best man than the guy that saved your life, so I felt it was right,” Ben says.
Jan took Ben and Jayme up on the invitation and on September 16th, he stood beside Ben as he married his “best friend,” Jayme. At the wedding, they took the opportunity to celebrate the gift that Jan’s donation had given them by encouraging all the guests to sign up to become stem cell donors.
Source: MY FOX 8