Want to be a hero?
First of all, become a blood donor. Once you are a blood donor ask how to get registered in the local stem cell registry.
If there ever is a match then you can trade some discomfort (a week on medication to release stem cells to your blood and one extra-long blood donation session) for the chance to save a life. Sounds good? It does to me. And just by donating blood regularly you are helping and saving people as well as driving education and science.
It's a no-brainer, right? Look up how to donate blood at your location immediately.
Originally shared by Chris Fink (OLD PROFILE)
my thoughts: first of all. beyond tragic, but her spirits seem undaunted, which is a huge credit to her. i'd probably be a full-on mess, and totally useless to anyone. also, this is why i don't subscribe to ideas like "fate" and "karma" or whatever you want to call it. if something like karma was real, she'd have overflowing warehouses of beautiful, pristine karma headed her way right now. :( i hope someone is the best match EVER for her on this!!
_Angie Olson spent her career caring for cancer patients as an oncology nurse at Long Beach Memorial cancer center. 14 years ago, a pain in her abdomen, led to a diagnosis of Stage 4 Lymphoma. and Angie became a cancer patient herself. Angie's chemotherapy drugs were selected following chemosensitivity testing by Long Beach oncologist Dr. Robert Nagourney, and her cancer went into remission until 2007. When it did return, Angie again went through tumor testing, got different chemotherapy drugs, and again went into remission. After another 6.5 years of being cancer free, Angie's cancer recently returned again. This time tests indicate that her only hope for survival is a Stem Cell Transplant. _
source: http://www.myfoxla.com/story/24401700/long-beach-cancer-nurse-seeks-stem-cell-donor
http://www.myfoxla.com/story/24401700/long-beach-cancer-nurse-seeks-stem-cell-donor
I have been a blood/tissue donor for 40 years. That came to a halt when I underwent chemo and radiation treatments myself. My glow-in-the-dark DNA isn't much use to anyone. But yeah, I would do this in a heartbeat if I could.
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