{"id":210797,"date":"2026-04-27T02:31:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T02:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/210797\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T02:31:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T02:31:39","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-bridgeport-miracle-man-defies-odds-celebrates-20-years-post-bone-marrow-transplant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/210797\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Bridgeport Miracle Man Defies Odds Celebrates 20 Years Post Bone Marrow Transplant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Doctors are calling a 63-year-old Bridgeport man a &#8220;miracle&#8221; after he celebrated two decades of life following a bone marrow transplant that was initially expected to give him only two more years.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Sunny Shaw underwent the high-risk procedure in 2006, with medical experts predicting a grim prognosis. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Defying those expectations, Shaw marked his 20th year in remission this week &#8212; a milestone that has stunned his doctors and brought his family joy.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;They didn&#8217;t think I\u2019d make it past two years,&#8221; Shaw said. &#8220;Celebrating 20 years is a blessing beyond words.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/gofund.me\/70907eb2a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GoFundMe<\/a> was created to help Shaw move into a wheelchair accessible apartment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Doctors are calling a 63-year-old Bridgeport man a &#8220;miracle&#8221; after he celebrated two decades of life following a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-210797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}