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This story I bring you today is a very nice one written by the father of a young man who was saved by a stem cell transplant. The young man, Yosef Eliezrie, in Los Angeles, was suffering from Leukemia and needed a bone marrow (stem cell) transplant to save his life. Unbeknown to him, the process of saving his life had begun 2 years before he was even diagnosed with leukemia during a bone marrow drive half way around the world :
It's hard to believe that a bank could save a life. But that is exactly what happened to my son in California. Twenty-two months ago he had a bone marrow transplant. The donor, Moshe Price, is a young yeshiva student in Jerusalem. Walking one day together with his sister, he noticed a sign on the wall of the Bank of Jerusalem advertising a bone marrow drive. In a split second he made the decision to walk inside, and he and his sisters became members of the Ezer Mizion Bone Marrow Project. Two months ago I had taken a tour group to shop in Mea She'arim. I decided to take a detour and I walked into the bank on Rehov Ya'acov Meir. The bank is nestled in the midst of the religious neighborhood of Geula, adjacent to Mea She'arim. The managers, tellers and all the staff are religious.
I walked over to the manager's office and stuck in my head. In Hebrew and Yiddish I told him the story. "You remember the bone marrow drive you did here some four years ago?""Yes," he replied."Well, it saved my son's life." The reaction was astonishment. A bone marrow drive, that was a nice idea, but to be told by the father of the recipient, from California no less, that it saved a life, that the decision to use the bank for the drive would have such palpable results, was a quite a surprise. The staff gathered around; the Internet was checked for articles about the story. The "wow" effect was amazing.That is why I keep hammering you readers to go to the
Bone Marrow donor website- and register your bone marrow. Or see this organization I wrote about
here.You can make a difference. And Yosef's father says it best at the end of his story-
So if someone tells you that you can't save a life, and your actions don't really make a difference, don't believe it. A small decision on Rehov Ya'acov Meir in Geula gave life to another person on the other side of globe.Click here to read the whole thing