LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. (KABC) --

"I could not bend my arms, could not bend my legs, couldn't even open my mouth and it was just getting worse and worse," said Joselyn.

Her son, Rex Miller, knew his mother might die.

"The doctor said there was a 30 percent chance that she wasn't going to make it. I was just so distraught," he said.

Finally, a neurologist diagnosed her with Shulman's syndrome, an extremely rare disease with no cure. It can lead to leukemia so she began chemotherapy and taking hundreds of pills.

But nothing worked.

"My bone marrow stopped producing white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets," Joselyn recalled.

She endured more than 100 blood transfusions just to survive.

Doctors told her only a bone marrow transplant would save her. Her brother, a perfect match, agreed to be her donor.

After the procedure, she grew stronger and committed herself to finding donors for others.

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Woman saved by bone marrow transplant sets out to pay it forward

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