When the Vikings’ Kenechi Udeze has a bone marrow transplant this week, brother Thomas Barnes will be the donor, cementing the relationship they’ve had since childhood. The fast-growing cancer of the white blood cells can prove fatal, but Udeze is scheduled to undergo a bone marrow transplant in the coming days at University of Minnesota Medical Center. Barnes tested as a 100 percent match for the transplant — leukemia patients have a 25 percent chance of finding a match among family members. Long before Udeze became a standout football player at the University of Southern California, Barnes realized a career in sports wasn’t in his future and turned his attention to academics. Barnes, who will undergo a physical in the middle of the week as doctors prepare him to donate bone marrow, has decided to relocate to the Twin Cities permanently to be closer to his brother. In the team’s Winter Park offices late last week, Udeze lamented the fact he hasn’t been able to work out — he tried that shortly after learning he was sick and spent five days in the hospital after having a fever of 105. read more
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