The staff at the UCLA Blood and Platelet Center helped one local man thank each and every blood donor who helped save his life.

The goal of this annual luncheon is to show firsthand how blood donation makes a difference.

One by one, 39-year-old Tyler Bacon, of Thousand Oaks, greeted the blood and platelet donors who helped him beat Acute Myeloid Leukemia.

It took 26 people to save his life.

“Because you showed up and donated, my parents still have a son, my children have a dad, my wife has a husband. There’s not enough gratitude in the world to say thank you,” Bacon said.

Two years ago, Bacon went to the emergency room at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center with a fever and a dental infection that wouldn’t heal.

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