A father-of-two with blood cancer who travelled more than 6,000 miles to the other side of the world in a bid to save his life says he can now look his sons in the eyes and say he "did everything".
Pete McCleave, 45, was given seven years to live after being diagnosed with myeloma in 2017.
The dad, from Bunbury in Cheshire, was told he could extend his life with a stem cell transplant, but he has struggled to find a genetic match because of his mixed heritage.
Now, seven years on he is in a race against time to find the perfect match – with his mix of Macanese, Irish and English meaning discovering the compatible tissue type is extremely difficult.
In an attempt to help, Pete made the journey to Macau, a small country off mainland China, in the hope that the community could offer his best chances of finding a stem cell donor.
The former Portuguese colony, 40 miles from Hong Kong, is the most densely populated place in the world and known as the gambling capital.
It is the mix of Chinese and Portuguese which Pete needs, with his grandmother Lucille Da’Costa born in Macau to a Chinese mother and a Portuguese father, while his grandfather was from Northern Ireland.
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