National Marrow Bank
Hi Everyone!
We received a call today from the "match coordinator" at Cinci Children's, they are proceeding with the next level of HLA matching for Nick, basically determining if any of the preliminary matches are going to be a good donor for Nick. Hopefully, we will hear back from them by the end of the day with the first round of results.
Many of you participated in the at home swab kit campaign to be registered in the National Marrow Bank (www.marrow.org) thank you! So many of you did this without a second thought as to what you would have to go through if you were a match. AMAZING! If you are not a match for Nick you might be a match for one of the many that do not have a donor and need a transplant to live. There is such a misconception out there about what it takes to be a marrow donor, it is really quite a simple process and requires very little, if any recovery time. I feel as though people need to be educated about what it takes to be a donor and the tremendous need for people to get registered. I hope to raise awareness regarding this issue, more to come on that later....
Anyhow, we hope to get match results by the end of the day...at least preliminary results. I will update as soon as I hear something.
Keep Praying!
Sandy
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10/27/2008 1:18:07 PM
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