Melissa Jefferson-Wooden Reveals the Special Name She Now Calls Her Father After His Medical Scare Melissa Jefferson-Wooden unveils the meaningful nickname she calls her father after his shocking medi

100m world champion, 200m world champion, 4x100m relay gold medalist, sums up Melissa Jefferson-Wooden’s stellar season. Her almost untouchable run that makes her only the second woman, after Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, to capture three golds at a single World Championships. She is in blazing form professionally, but there’s an even more powerful story beneath the medals, one most fans don’t know. Jefferson-Wooden once saved her father’s life from a rare disease, and because of that, she calls him her ‘twin’ . Here’s the story behind it.

Jefferson-Wooden’s biggest achievement beyond the medals is saving her father, Melvin Jefferson, from a disease that nearly took his life. When she was just 17, her father was diagnosed with a condition called myelodysplastic syndrome, in which the bon