I am looking for the one person to save my mum's life. 

It's been a matter of weeks since I received the shattering news that my mother Kym, was diagnosed with Leukaemia, aged just 54. And now I am urgently searching for a bone marrow (or stem cell) donor to save her life.

As with most people, my mum means the world to me and I love her to the moon and back. I'm living in a nightmare I can't wake up from. It was business as usual just a few weeks ago for me and mum. I’d returned from filming in Marbella at the start of the series and everything was as normal. Mum seemed herself and was physically doing everything she has always done on a daily basis, walking to work and back, keeping and managing a home etc.. Everything seemed normal. Mum was doing everyday things like dog-sitting for my dog Beau, then a few weeks ago she started feeling a bit run down and tired. 

She had some standard blood tests, and devastatingly, the results revealed she had a form of blood cancer called acute myeloid Leukaemia. Mum was rushed to hospital that very same day, and hasn’t been allowed home since. Since mid-July, mum has been receiving intense chemotherapy twice a day, but the doctors have told us that this alone would not be enough to cure her of the cancer.

We were told that Mum has a gene that will prevent the chemotherapy working to its full potential, and that her best hope of survival now is a bone marrow transplant. 

So it’s now a waiting game to see if we can find a stranger on the Anthony Nolan register who is a match for Mum and who is willing to donate their stem cells to her. It could literally be anyone.

I am now lending my support to the charity Anthony Nolan, which runs the UK bone marrow register. 

I have also launched a Twitter appeal #SaveBobbysMum and am urging people to sign up. 

I know I’m not the only one this is happening to. There are other families being told the same news every single day – today, this evening, tomorrow. Two thirds of them will rely on Anthony Nolan to find them their lifesaving donor.

All I can do apart from being there for Mum is to try to raise awareness of the Anthony Nolan register, particularly to young people as they are much more likely to go onto donate and save a life.

I am also backing an Anthony Nolan campaign, calling on people to ‘save a stranger’s life'.

A stranger to one person is another person’s mum. For the donor, it’s probably just a case of sitting still for a few hours while the stem cells are taken out of their blood. But for me, and for families like mine, it’s the difference between having my mum around or not. It’s everything. These donors are lifesavers and I’m bowled over by the kindness of strangers who do this.

To join the Anthony Nolan register, you must be aged between 16 and 30 and in good health.

I am urging EVERYBODY who is eligible to be on Anthony Nolan register to please register their details and one day potentially save somebody's life. 

We only ever get one mum, so let's look after them and each other's, and sign up to be on the Anthony Nolan register.

Sign up today at www.anthonynolan.org/strangers or support Anthony Nolan’s lifesaving work by donating to Bobby’s JustGiving page at www.justgiving.com/BobbyNorris

#SaveBobbysMum

Please visit my Twitter page for updates at @BobbyCNorris or @AnthonyNolan

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