 I would encourage people to come out and be tested because it could save somebody's life. It's as simple as that. During the season of giving, many focus on material objects. But through Be The Match, you could give someone a chance at life. The family of Montana Nickel held a Be The Match stem cell collection event Wednesday, December 27th in hopes of finding a match for Montana, who's currently battling Hodgkin's Lymphoma. They're doing it for my daughter. She's had cancer come back on her four times, Hodgkin's Lymphoma. She's having to do a bone marrow transplant, which is a stem cell, and they match the tissue is what they're looking for for the bone marrow, and it's really a simple procedure. They take blood out of one arm, goes through a machine, goes back into the other arm, and it's very important for people that's looking at stage four cancer or looking at any kind of cancer for that matter. It wouldn't mean the world. I mean, it means everything to me, and to her mother, and plus you might be a match for somebody else. Appalachian Wireless is offering you up to $850 off select devices until the new year and no activation fee, $850 off the latest and greatest. We are you. We are Appalachian Wireless. Happy New Year. Doing stem cells is a simple procedure that has impacted over 120,000 lives, and joining the registry only requires a simple cheek swab. Over 6,000 people are currently waiting for a matching donor. I just figured for all the presents that I get on my Christmas birthday, I might as well give the present of life to someone else. I just feel like there's no need not to help someone. Even if you don't know, I'd do it for a total stranger too if it was for anyone else but Montana. I don't know her that much, but she's still family and I'd do it for anyone else. There's no reason not to help save someone else's life when it's given nothing negative to yours. You might be one of those people one day, you might want someone else to help you one day, and what you give, you receive one day, so you might as well make the word blood a place in what it is already. For more information on how to join the registry or to see if you're a match for Montana, go to bethematch.org backslash swap for Montana. Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Brianna Robinson.