| I found out while in a taxi cab this morning & I started crying. So thankful. So glad I could (maybe) help. It's such a simple thing to save someone's life like this. Please register to be a marrow donor today. It's no more work than sucking on a lollipop & even the donation process these days is usually not much worse than blood donation (it just takes longer): http://marrow.org/Join/Join_Now/Join_Now.aspx This is ESPECIALLY powerful if you're non-white or mixed race, because -- you probably remember this from when Amit's story started -- the chances of finding a match for an ill non-white or mixed race person is about 1 in TWENTY THOUSAND. That means that many of these sick people could be saved -- the tech is there, the science is there, but the donors simply aren't. This is hideous, but something we can absolutely fix. The number of people who registered for Amit will almost surely save many other lives. So please, please register: http://marrow.org/Join/Join_Now/Join_Now.aspx |
Now that I see Amit found a donor and the system works (my eyes teared up a little reading his post), I finally decided I need to join.
So, for everyone else like me who has needed just a bit more motivation; go on and join the registry. I just filled out the forms and requested the cheek swab kit. It takes about 15 minutes to fill out the forms, and then in two weeks they'll send you a cheek swab kit with instructions and a return envelope. Not too bad, so far...