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The two-month-old son of a friend has been diagnosed with a very rare and very dangerous immune system condition. Nine weeks ago the message "yay it's a boy;" nine days ago the message "so yeah we've been at the hospital since Tuesday and here's what's going on." Talk about things that suck. What doesn't suck, though, is the number of people who are willing to--quite literally*--open a vein if it will be at all helpful.
More people are good than not. That has to count for something.
* Superliterally, in this case, because donating blood is obviously a thing, but this kid is eventually going to need a bone marrow transplant, and it is a large number of people (apparently) who have said of course you can have as much of mine as you need.
If you're between 18 and 65, please consider joining the registry. (Google "bone marrow registry" in the United States. I don't know anything about bone marrow donation restrictions in other countries, but in the states it's a lot less constrained than donating whole blood or platelets, so even if you're DQ'd from the latter for overseas travel, e.g., you will likely qualify for marrow.)
More people are good than not. That has to count for something.
* Superliterally, in this case, because donating blood is obviously a thing, but this kid is eventually going to need a bone marrow transplant, and it is a large number of people (apparently) who have said of course you can have as much of mine as you need.
If you're between 18 and 65, please consider joining the registry. (Google "bone marrow registry" in the United States. I don't know anything about bone marrow donation restrictions in other countries, but in the states it's a lot less constrained than donating whole blood or platelets, so even if you're DQ'd from the latter for overseas travel, e.g., you will likely qualify for marrow.)