I just got a call saying I'm a possible match for someone in need of a bone marrow transplant. When I registered, I never thought that would happen, given that my genetic line is pretty mongrel.
Wow! Good for you for registering, and what wonderful news for the recipient. I would be alternating between exhilaration and trepidation if I were you.
I'm just hoping they don't need me to donate the first week of Rhys's school or something.
I wasn't aware until today that sometimes the stem cells usually obtained through a bone marrow donation is now drawn more often through apheresis, after a series of injections of a medication that causes your stem cells to move out into your bloodstream. Which actually makes me more nervous than having a hole punched in my hip bone. The last few times I tried to donate platelets, for some reason the draw starts failing. Returns are fine, draw just stops. We decided the last time this happened that I was no longer a good apheresis candidate, so I'm going back to donating whole blood. I'd hate to go through the injections, have the recipient all ready, and have the actual donation fail.
If it's any comfort, pjmomma, you can go in and get swabbed (apparently it's a swab test now, back in the stone age when I signed up they drew half a dozen vials of blood), and it's very unlikely you'll ever get called. And apheresis isn't bad at all, as far as painful medical procedures go, LOL.
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Wow! Good for you for registering, and what wonderful news for the recipient. I would be alternating between exhilaration and trepidation if I were you.
I'm just hoping they don't need me to donate the first week of Rhys's school or something.
I wasn't aware until today that sometimes the stem cells usually obtained through a bone marrow donation is now drawn more often through apheresis, after a series of injections of a medication that causes your stem cells to move out into your bloodstream. Which actually makes me more nervous than having a hole punched in my hip bone. The last few times I tried to donate platelets, for some reason the draw starts failing. Returns are fine, draw just stops. We decided the last time this happened that I was no longer a good apheresis candidate, so I'm going back to donating whole blood. I'd hate to go through the injections, have the recipient all ready, and have the actual donation fail.
Wow Alice!
You are my idol! That is way, way cool of you.
I've always wanted to do something like that, but I'm such a chicken shit!
You rock!
I've tried to leave this comment 80 million times and it's not letting me under pajama momma, sope, shauna it is
If it's any comfort, pjmomma, you can go in and get swabbed (apparently it's a swab test now, back in the stone age when I signed up they drew half a dozen vials of blood), and it's very unlikely you'll ever get called. And apheresis isn't bad at all, as far as painful medical procedures go, LOL.
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