Thursday, June 02, 2005

Great "Gift of Life" marrow donation story

From the "Gift of Life" site:

The Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation was established in 1991 as a donor recruitment organization to help save the life of New Jersey leukemia patient Jay Feinberg. Between 1991-1995, the organization launched an extensive campaign to recruit donors of Eastern-European Jewish ethnicity throughout North America and abroad.

Over the course of four years, nearly 60,000 donors were registered with the National Marrow Donor Program in the United States, as well as other national registries in Canada, Israel and South Africa. In 1995, the very last donor tested turned out to be Jay's match, and he was transplanted in Seattle at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

So, if you are a potential match of Bonnie, and are in San Francisco this weekend, or in the Boston or New York area the following weekend, click here for more details:

Gift of Life Donation Drives (SF, NY, Boston)

It would be nice to repeat Jay Feinberg's story.

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