Post by Emi Hitokata on May 23, 2009 5:47:18 GMT -5
I was surfing the internet, and I found something really shocking. Let me just paste this. Check out this video also.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6aCCuqOYYE
On May 13th, doctors at Stanford Hospital told Nick Glasgow that he has a 0% chance of finding a donor, given his unique ethnic make-up of ¼ Japanese and ¾ Caucasian.
Nick, 28 years old and an EMC employee, is in the race for his life. The need to find a qualified bone marrow doner is at a critical stage.
In mid March, Nick was diagnosed with Acute Leukemia. There was a 70% chance that Nick would go into remission after one chemo treatment, however, Nicks fate lies in the other 30%. He went through two treatments, and he is still not in remission. Nicks only hope is to find a bone marrow donor. The National Bone Marrow Registry only has a handful of such potential donors, and the likelihood of them being a match is slim to none.
Nick is fighting for his life and time is limited. Please help raise awareness among the Asian/American community and encourage them to register their marrow through www.marrow.org. If you or ANYONE you know is ¼ Asian and ¾ Caucasian, PLEASE register today.
Please publicize this cause by posting it as your status and spreading it. Nick's time is limited, so please act NOW. Together, we can help save Nick!
I had never really thought of how much trouble it would be for a mixed-race person suffering from Leukemia. I'm also mixed Japanese, so I find this shocking. I doubt that I could help out or anything, but my friends and I have decided to just put the message out and hope that something good turns out.
I rarely post up things like this since I'm afraid of annoying everyone by cluttering the boards, but this is so important to me that I'm gonna make an exception.
So yeah, spread the word out \(^o^)/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6aCCuqOYYE
On May 13th, doctors at Stanford Hospital told Nick Glasgow that he has a 0% chance of finding a donor, given his unique ethnic make-up of ¼ Japanese and ¾ Caucasian.
Nick, 28 years old and an EMC employee, is in the race for his life. The need to find a qualified bone marrow doner is at a critical stage.
In mid March, Nick was diagnosed with Acute Leukemia. There was a 70% chance that Nick would go into remission after one chemo treatment, however, Nicks fate lies in the other 30%. He went through two treatments, and he is still not in remission. Nicks only hope is to find a bone marrow donor. The National Bone Marrow Registry only has a handful of such potential donors, and the likelihood of them being a match is slim to none.
Nick is fighting for his life and time is limited. Please help raise awareness among the Asian/American community and encourage them to register their marrow through www.marrow.org. If you or ANYONE you know is ¼ Asian and ¾ Caucasian, PLEASE register today.
Please publicize this cause by posting it as your status and spreading it. Nick's time is limited, so please act NOW. Together, we can help save Nick!
I had never really thought of how much trouble it would be for a mixed-race person suffering from Leukemia. I'm also mixed Japanese, so I find this shocking. I doubt that I could help out or anything, but my friends and I have decided to just put the message out and hope that something good turns out.
I rarely post up things like this since I'm afraid of annoying everyone by cluttering the boards, but this is so important to me that I'm gonna make an exception.
So yeah, spread the word out \(^o^)/
