KelliShaver
23rd of February 2005 (Wed), 00:29
Not for me, but for a friend.
I have made a new friend, someone I have a lot in common with; a very smart, intelligent, funny and compassionate guy. He is a photographer, and an artist. He is also dieing of cancer.
If you are capable of doing so, please consider taking a few moments of your time to join the national bone marrow registry (link below). My friend, and hundreds of others like him have little to no hope for survival without a bone marrow transplant, yet many of them, himself included, can not find a suitable match.
The proceedure to join the registry is very simple, taking only a couple of minutes and requiring a small finger prick. It is much simpler than giving blood.
If you are found to be a match for someone, you are given the option of donating, in which case a small amount of bone marrow is removed from your hip. You are given anesthesia during the proceedure and medecine for any pain afterwards, although most people report only mild soreness the next day. The cost of the proceedure is paid for by the registry and it is an outpatient process that takes only a few hours of your life to save someone else's.
There is occasionally a small fee, depending on where you live, to join the registry in the first place. The fee covers tissue typing and is, at the most, $65. This is a small amount for those of us who do things like purchase digital SLR's and large lenses to go on them.
This is a voluntary medical proceedure and certainly, no one should be pressured into it. I do, however, humbly request that those of you who are over the age of 18 and in good health consider doing this, for my friend, and for others like him.
My friend's site: http://paperkyut.blogspot.com/
US Bone Marrow Registry: http://www.marrow.org
Thanks for reading.
I have made a new friend, someone I have a lot in common with; a very smart, intelligent, funny and compassionate guy. He is a photographer, and an artist. He is also dieing of cancer.
If you are capable of doing so, please consider taking a few moments of your time to join the national bone marrow registry (link below). My friend, and hundreds of others like him have little to no hope for survival without a bone marrow transplant, yet many of them, himself included, can not find a suitable match.
The proceedure to join the registry is very simple, taking only a couple of minutes and requiring a small finger prick. It is much simpler than giving blood.
If you are found to be a match for someone, you are given the option of donating, in which case a small amount of bone marrow is removed from your hip. You are given anesthesia during the proceedure and medecine for any pain afterwards, although most people report only mild soreness the next day. The cost of the proceedure is paid for by the registry and it is an outpatient process that takes only a few hours of your life to save someone else's.
There is occasionally a small fee, depending on where you live, to join the registry in the first place. The fee covers tissue typing and is, at the most, $65. This is a small amount for those of us who do things like purchase digital SLR's and large lenses to go on them.
This is a voluntary medical proceedure and certainly, no one should be pressured into it. I do, however, humbly request that those of you who are over the age of 18 and in good health consider doing this, for my friend, and for others like him.
My friend's site: http://paperkyut.blogspot.com/
US Bone Marrow Registry: http://www.marrow.org
Thanks for reading.