Do a good deed - national marrow donor registry and MA marrow drive

[drwex]

More signal-boosting for friends-of-friends:

Registering to be a potential bone-marrow donor no longer requires a blood draw. It can be done by a swab of a few cells from inside your cheek. Most insurance covers the costs of a registry visit and test - it's definitely covered in MA.

If you're able and MA-local, there's a donor registry drive on Saturday June 2 from 11-3 at the Batchelder Elementary School, 175 Park Street, North Reading MA (Rt. 62 and Haverhill St). Contact Christine Mancini at (978) 664-7814x1125 or (800) 676-4545x19. You must be 18-60 yrs old (16-17 with parent consent).

If you are not MA-local, you can get more information from the national registry site at http://www.marrow.org/DONOR/FAQs/Donor_FAQs/index.html

Comments

[keyne.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately marrow registries have a fairly extensive list of exclusions. I was all fired up about joining one a few months ago, but we didn't even get as far as discussing the "yes, I'm married to a man who's had sex with other men, but..." question before they dinged me for, all of things, fibromyalgia :(

[rdhdsnippet.livejournal.com]

Sadly, my spine surgery prevents me from registering. :( (I seem to recall the cadaver bone is what does it.) But i hope everyone who can, will!

[rdhdsnippet.livejournal.com]

Oh good grief... and half the medical profession doesn't believe fibromyalgia exists! :(