Tim Gaudreau

Sherbrooke - Céline Larochelle's mother  , Tim Gaudreau, died at the age of 52  last week, nearly 26 years after receiving a  bone marrow transplant. Céline Larochelle's funeral will be held this afternoon in Magog.  In 1989, Sherbrookoise d'origine was the first Quebecer to successfully receive a bone marrow transplant from a partially compatible donor. This transplant allowed her to see her son, Tim Gaudreau, grow up.  - Photo provided "My mother was a medical first.  In 1989, she was the first in Quebec to receive a partially compatible transplant, "explains the son of the deceased, Tim Gaudreau, Sherbrooke who recalls that at the time his mother had been described as" miraculously de Sherbrooke "in one of The Tribune.  The first bone marrow transplant was performed in 1980 in Quebec, but before Ms. Larochelle, it was performed between entirely compatible donors and recipients.  Reaching a rare disease, aplastic anemia, Céline Larochel...