Dallas Gentry is a corrections officer living in southwest Virginia who was raised to help those who need help. When he turned 18, he began donating a pint of blood once a month at his local blood bank because it was the right thing to do. After a year or so of blood donations, one of the ladies working at the blood bank asked if he was interested in becoming a bone marrow donor. Gentry didn’t know much about it but agreed to be placed on the national registry and went on living the rest of his life.



Four years later, Jim Donovan walked into an urgent care center in Westlake because his stomach had been bothering him and his busy season with the Browns was about to begin. When the doctor suggested a blood test, Donovan didn’t think much of it. When the staff returned to take a second blood test, he still didn’t worry. But when those tests revealed leukemia, Gentry was about to become the most important person in his life. A shaken Donovan just didn’t...