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National Bone Marrow Registry-Are You On It?

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pueo
 
Reply Sun 9 Feb, 2003 11:01 pm
i had never heard of this until three weeks ago. the drive was done to try to help a five year old girl from guam. the turn out was the best the bone marrow registry has ever had. it was really easy and painless to register, answer a couple of questions and have them take a couple of drops of blood from your finger.

unfortunately, the story of the young girl does not have a happy ending.

http://www.guampdn.com/news/stories/20030210/topstories/951415.html

please register if you can.
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Phoenix32890
 
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Reply Mon 10 Feb, 2003 06:57 am
Here are a number of sites for bone marrow registries, and you can find more on Google, which serves different areas of the world:

http://www.crir.org/

http://www.charityadvantage.com/abmdr/Home.asp

http://www.abmdr.org.au

Donating bone marrow is a lot more complicated than taking a few drops of blood from a finger. That procedure is done just to determine a person's blood typing.

When a person is a match, and is called to donate, there are a couple of possibilities. If stem cells are needed, the procedure is the same as giving blood. If marrow is needed, the procedure is more complex. The donor is anaesthesized in an operating room. Marrow is taken out of a number of places in the hip bones and the sternum. He usually stays overnight in the hospital. Like any procedure, marrow extraction has its dangers, which need to be considered before a person decides to be a donor.

I think that donating marrow is a wonderful way of helping to save another human beings life, but a potential donor needs to know all the ramifications before he offers to donate.

How do I know about this? I had an autologous (my own) bone marrow transplant, and had the marrow harvested twice!
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New Haven
 
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Reply Mon 10 Feb, 2003 04:56 pm
Good links!
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pueo
 
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Reply Mon 10 Feb, 2003 11:59 pm
blood type matching gets you on registry. the actual process as mentioned above is more complicated. we have three residents that are known of, on guam who have donated. they say that they would donate again.
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NeoGuin
 
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Reply Tue 11 Feb, 2003 12:52 pm
I'm on a registry! But I have yet to get the call to donate.
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