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Farmingville girl with leukemia needs marrow transplant
Photo credit: Newsday/Mahala Gaylord | Six-year-old Julianna Buttner, left, and her twin sister Jessica lie on Julianna's hospital bed at Stony Brook Medical Center the day before Thanksgiving. Julianna needs a life-saving bone marrow transplant. (Nov. 25, 2009)
Six-year-old Julianna Buttner needs a life-saving bone marrow transplant
Girl with leukemia returns home from hospital
The Buttner family of Farmingville is counting its blessings this Thanksgiving: two beautiful identical twin daughters - Julianna and Jessica - now 6 years old, who were born a minute apart.
But their hope is for a miracle from the kindness of a stranger who could rescue Julianna from an aggressive form of leukemia, a disease that may prove fatal unless a bone marrow donor is found.
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