{"id":273716,"date":"2026-04-18T04:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T04:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/273716\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T04:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T04:41:07","slug":"fresno-cancer-survivor-meets-life-saving-stem-cell-donor-at-rundisney-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/273716\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno cancer survivor meets life-saving stem cell donor at runDisney event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; An emotional moment this week for a Fresno cancer survivor included a little Disney magic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Abby Hudak had a chance to meet the stem cell donor who saved her life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Fresno woman underwent a life-saving transplant in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">This week, she met Lewis Haggerty of Scotland while in Florida for the 2026 &#8220;runDisney Springtime Surprise Weekend&#8221; at the Walt Disney World resort.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The complete strangers found out they were a match through an online blood stem cell donor registry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">After many big hugs and conversations filled with deep gratitude, Abby and Lewis took part in a 5k run together Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The 2026 &#8220;runDisney Springtime Surprise Weekend&#8221; wraps up on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">This year&#8217;s theme is iconic Disney duos, with featured characters like Aladdin and Genie, Joy and Sadness and Nick and Judy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Disney is the parent company of ABC30.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; An emotional moment this week for a Fresno cancer survivor included a little Disney&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[118603,112,118602,114,113,294],"class_list":{"0":"post-273716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-118603","9":"tag-fresno","10":"tag-fresno-cancer-survivor-meets-life-saving-stem-cell-donor-at-rundisney-event","11":"tag-fresno-headlines","12":"tag-fresno-news","13":"tag-timely"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}