{"id":273745,"date":"2026-04-18T05:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/273745\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T05:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:05:12","slug":"fresno-cancer-survivor-meets-life-saving-stem-cell-donor-at-rundisney-event-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/273745\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno cancer survivor meets life-saving stem cell donor at runDisney event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An emotional moment this week for a Fresno cancer survivor included a little Disney magic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Abby Hudak had a chance to meet the stem cell donor who saved her life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Fresno woman underwent a life-saving transplant in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The complete strangers found out they were a match through an online blood stem cell donor registry.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The 2026 &#8220;runDisney Springtime Surprise Weekend&#8221; wraps up on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Disney is the parent company of ABC30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An emotional moment this week for a Fresno cancer survivor included a little Disney magic. Abby Hudak had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[101344,80911,118618,112,114,113,118615,118616,118619,118617],"class_list":{"0":"post-273745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-cancer-survivor","9":"tag-disney-magic","10":"tag-emotional-moment","11":"tag-fresno","12":"tag-fresno-headlines","13":"tag-fresno-news","14":"tag-lewis-haggerty","15":"tag-rundisney","16":"tag-stem-cell-donor-registry","17":"tag-walt-disney-world-resort"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273745","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=273745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}