"Cool, cool, cool," Harding said, jumping up and down and shaking off some of the pent-up energy she built up during the three-hour drive from Wichita, Kan.
Harding could be described as a walking miracle. Last November, she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, and once doctors determined she would need a bone marrow transplant, her father, Mike, was tested as a possible donor. They were a match.
"It was awesome, because it's not very likely," an emotional Mike Harding said, referring to being a match. "Now, she's back in school, being a normal little girl.