Be a hero and help save the life of a 4 year old girl.
If you live in the Orange County/Los Angeles area, please consider attending the bone marrow donor drive tomorrow (April 6, 2010) in Garden Grove, CA for 4 year old Kaili Nguyen.
Kaili is battling MDS Leukemia and a bone marrow transplant is her last-chance option for survival. No one in her family is a match. All that is required to check for a match is a few minutes of your time and a cheek swab.
This event is sponsored by the National Marrow Donor Program and will be held at the G.G. Unified School District Office from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm:
Garden Grove Unified School District 10331 Stanford Drive Garden Grove, CA 92840 MapHope to see you there.
Edited to add:
For those that cannot make it to this bone marrow drive, please note that you can join the donor registry at any time using a mail order kit. Check out the National Marrow Donor Program website for more information.
I signed up for the online registry linked in the post’s PS. It was an easy (but thorough) process, full of great information. Having gone through it now, this strikes me as no different than enrolling to be an organ donor — only better, since I don’t have to expire to be useful. I’d encourage others to think about enrolling. Although this post is about a specific little girl who desperately needs help, there are many other such children with whom the registry could potentially connect donors.
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This is so great of you to publicize a good cause like this. I love it when people use their blogging platforms for good!
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