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Every week I hit you with www.marrow.org . Register there and there is a chance you can save somebody's life. This week is no different. Go to www.marrow.org and learn how you can register and perhaps one day you will be called upon to donate your bone marrow. It involves a little discomfort and a couple days of your time, a small price to pay for someone who will always love you.
And here is another nice story:
Everyday thousands of critically ill people search for a life-saving donation. They're looking for a bone marrow transplant but finding a match can be difficult.Especially for minorities who sometimes never find one mainly because not enough minorities sign up to be donors.This weekend there is a national donor event to help change that.Courtney Parham knows how hard it is to find a match. She has the date of her cord blood transplant tattooed on her wrist. It's a day she will never forget."I know that there's somebody out there that did this and saved my life," says Parham.She was diagnosed with leukemia just after her early graduation from high school.Cord blood is more easily matched, so when doctors couldn't find a marrow match for Courtney they chose the alternative. It works in the same way but bone marrow is preferred. Nevertheless, the cord blood did the trick."People need to realize that this is saving 2-year-olds lives, this is saving an 18-year-old's life. I can now go to college, I can now work, I can be a part of society and I can continue doing what I was meant to do," says Parham.This is just one example of why donors are so important."There's no question. This is a life-saving procedure. We reserve bone marrow transplant usually for people who are out of options," says Dr. Graham."There are so many younger people that have so much more to live for, and these transplants are saving their lives day after day," says ParhamREGISTER YOUR BONE MARROW! There is also a shortage of donors from minority groups. WWW.MARROW.ORG - Do it
Only eight percent of registered donors with the national marrow donor program are African American. More than 80 percent of African American patients needing a transplant don't get one. "You do tend to match best within your own group, and that's why, the last time we checked, the national marrow program was actually encouraging any minority donor they could," says Dr. Michael Graham, a Pediatric Oncologist.Click here to read the whole article