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- “You Made a Choice that Many People Don’t Make.” Parent’s Personal Thank You to Donor
- The power of one: a parent’s perspective
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- “This can’t be happening to me…” Mother of three thrives after transplant
- Tips for organizing your post-transplant care
- Support for your child’s education needs through the transplant journey
- Columbus woman turns “helpless” feeling into mission to find younger sister a marrow donor
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- Working it out: Returning to your job after transplant
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- Remembering the past and paying it forward
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- Rachel’s Story: Kindergartner leaves illness behind
- Update on firefighter Roy Chelsen
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- Austin family honored for raising awareness of need for African American donors
- How the search for a match gets from the patient’s doctor to a donor
- Randi’s Army
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- Do Something Big with a video widget
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- Team Anh
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- Be The Match Registry drives
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- Leisy family hopes My Sister’s Keeper encourages marrow donation
My friend is being treated at SHANDS for Aplastic anemia but needs a bone marrow transplant. Aplastic anemia is a disease of the bone marrow. The bone marrow stops making enough red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets for the body. Any blood cells the marrow does make are normal, but there are not enough of them. Aplastic anemia can be moderate, severe or very severe. People with severe or very severe aplastic anemia are at risk for life-threatening infections or bleeding.
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Hi, This is Nora and Sharon’s mom. Some people think that being a bone marorw donor is very painful, so they hesitate to sign up. Signing up is easy and requires just a blood test. Even the next stage, where you have been identified as a potential donor is easy just a blood test. The actual donating is done under anesthesia and your hip bone(s) might hurt for a few days but what is that bit of pain if it saves someones life? You can take pain pills. The odds are slight that you will ever be called on. I was called for further testing but no further. My husband has never been called on for further testing. But we would have donated without a moment’s hesitation if we had had the chance. So, please, register to be a donor!!!
Is there an age limit on donation?
@Cynthia, to join the Be The Match Registry you must be between the ages of 18 and 60 and meet the health guidlines. To learn more go to: http://marrow.org/Join/Medical_Guidelines/Medical_Guidelines_for_Joining_the_Registry.aspx#Age
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I never gave a single pint of blood during the many blood drives I watched……but when I diagnosed with Acute Mylosetic Leukemia …acute and fatal onset…..I had scores of blood and then when I recovered a bit I returned to work at Boeing and then relapsed in November and went to Fred Hutch Cancer Center when I was put on a morphein pain pump and tpn cemical food and then endless bags of blood products and cancer drugs…………..so thank you to all my donors and my stem cell donor…a retired fire captain in san jose California……thank you to them all and thank you to my Lord and God…………….