Comments | troubleagain: PSA: National Marrow Donor Program

troubleagain

PSA: National Marrow Donor Program

Jun 08, 2009 13:31

From June 8 to June 22, you can join the National Marrow Donor registry for FREE! If you haven't done this, it's painless, and for the next few weeks, FREE. Did I mention FREE? And painless!

You could save a life! (And a lot of time, they don't even take marrow, they take stem cells by apheresis--so fairly painless, even if you donate!)

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I went to register imahaint June 8 2009, 18:08:55 UTC

and went through alllll the info on health - oddly enough, I can register with my Diabetes, allergies, arthritis - but the show stopper is my Sleep Apnea - they won't touch me....

(sigh)...Willing to donate - just not healthy enough, according to them, to do so....

Re: I went to register troubleagain June 8 2009, 18:49:06 UTC

Oh, bummer, but thanks for trying!

pyffe June 8 2009, 22:14:38 UTC

Gotta discuss this with The Bog first. But I'd love to do this. They won't let me give blood anymore (Which is weird considering how often I'd donated before until they changed the rules on me again) but this said there was no issue with having traveled out of the country.

troubleagain June 8 2009, 22:35:31 UTC

Cool. Interesting--I didn't discuss it with my husband. I just did it.

pyffe June 8 2009, 22:41:46 UTC

I don't mean I 'have' to discuss it with him. I meant I wanted to. ;->

troubleagain June 9 2009, 00:53:25 UTC

That wasn't a judgement, though I realize it probably sounded like it. It simply didn't occur to me to discuss it with him. I just told him I was doing it. There's lots of things I absolutely wouldn't do without discussing it with him....I think I ended up posting before I finished my thought. The rest of my thought process was something like....I wonder if I should have, or do I have a right to do anything I want with my body without discussion, or does marriage grant him a say....

You know, rambly stuff.

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lordjim June 8 2009, 23:48:35 UTC

They say I'm too old. Well, I will be in 3 months. That's a bummer, I didn't know I was too old for anything, except little league.

troubleagain June 9 2009, 00:53:36 UTC

Well, crap! But thank you for trying!

sdaisyk June 8 2009, 23:59:41 UTC

Thank you for posting this. Now I will try and pimp it in a little while.

Someone on this registry saved my Dad's life.

EDIT: Could you possibly unlock this?

troubleagain June 9 2009, 00:53:52 UTC

Yes, absolutely. I didn't even think about it!

tygre June 9 2009, 02:09:31 UTC

Thanks for the link -- I signed up and my kit should be here in a week. Woo-hoo!

troubleagain June 9 2009, 13:03:35 UTC

Yay!