Everyone wants to save Sabrina's life: Great support for a typing campaign for a nurse suffering from leukemia

Created: 06/12/2022, 05:30

By: Sabina Brosch

Her family is always at Sabrina Döring's side: (from left, standing): Sabrina Döring's dad Willi Wolf, husband Ben Döring, mom Cornelia Wolf, daughter Lea, brother Luis, aunt Claudia Wolf, sister Laura Pangratz and seated in front: grandpa Willi Wolf and Grandma Maria Wolf.

© Sabina Brosch

Only a bone marrow donation can save Sabrina Döring's life.

The 40-year-old nurse is suffering from leukemia.

That's why a big typing campaign for the mother of two took place at kbo Haar.

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– It was a shock for Sabrina Döring's family: Blood cancer is back.

Everyone thought that the popular nurse from the Haar Clinic had long since conquered the disease five years ago.

But the leukemia broke out again.

It was only discovered by accident.

And only a bone marrow donation can now save the life of the 40-year-old mother.

You're running out of time.

Relatives, friends and colleagues are now placing all hope in the typing campaign that took place on Sunday and yesterday at Sabrina Döring's workplace at the kbo Klinikum in Haar.

Her closest relatives, husband, children, parents and grandparents, came to support the campaign and give Sabrina the strength not to give up.

She fought her way back to life once

Blood cancer has been raging in the body of the 40-year-old for eight years.

The diagnosis of leukemia was a heavy blow for the young mother in 2014, for her family with her husband Ben and their two children Lea and Luis, and changed her life from one moment to the next.

Sabrina Döring can no longer work as a nurse at the kbo-Klinik.

But she gets back on her feet, fights her way back to life.

Two strenuous years followed, says husband Ben, not only the body, but also the psyche was very tense.

"However, we have led an almost normal, relaxed life for the past five years." Although his wife constantly listened to her body, "we never thought that the disease would break out again".

Sabrina Döring: Your last chance is a bone marrow donation © private

Sabrina Döring has been in the clinic since the end of October

But fate is sometimes a lousy traitor.

Sabrina Döring was supposed to get a knee prosthesis, a preliminary examination revealed abnormalities in the blood count, four days later she was already in the Klinik Rechts der Isar, where she has been since October 30th.

There she received chemotherapy.

"But we definitely urgently need a stem cell donor," says mother Cornelia Wolf on the day of the typing campaign.

"It's the only way she can survive.

We hope that a suitable donor will be found today.”

When Johann Eittinger, head of the kbo ward for many years and now retired, heard that Sabrina had leukemia again, it was clear to him: “Now I have to do something.” He contacted kbo Managing Director Franz Podechtl, “the clinic was immediately willing to bear the costs for a typing campaign and made the rooms available to us.” Tests were therefore carried out in the kbo common room on Sunday and Monday.

Nobody gives up hope

Friends and acquaintances of Sabrina Döring publicized the campaign through all available channels, from radio to social media.

With success.

Already on Sunday, 80 people who wanted to be typed came in the first two hours. “We have 600 test kits here.

When they're all gone, I'll be happy," says Eittinger.

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Hope in a box: Sabrina Döring's father Willi Wolf with the cotton swabs of the participants in the typing campaign.

© Sabina Brosch

The first two to come to the test at the door of the kbo community center on Sunday morning were two from Albaching, where the Dörings live.

"It's incredible how many neighbors, friends and acquaintances support us there," says husband Ben Döring.

support he desperately needs.

He works and takes care of the two children and the household.

"I don't have a 24/7 job, but currently feels 36/8." He visits his wife once a week, "otherwise we see each other digitally." On this day, the grandparents Willi and Maria Wolf shake hands with many acquaintances and are hugged and give each other courage and hope.

Sabrina's father collects the tests in a box that "hopefully my daughter's future is somewhere in there," he says.

No one in the family gives up, "not for a second," adds mom Cornelia.

"We know,

Donating doesn't hurt!

People between the ages of 18 and 55 can be tested.

Simply order a registration set from DKMS, take a cheek swab and send it back.

After the analysis, you are in the DKMS database as a possible donor for patients all over the world.

If you have the right match, in 90 percent of the cases the stem cells are obtained from the blood, similar to a blood donation.

This takes three to five hours, and the donor can usually leave the clinic on the same day.