Needed: healthy people ages 18-44 to help save lives. Come out to O’Leary’s Restaurant & Pub this Thursday evening, April 3rd, 2014, between 6pm-8pm and join the marrow registry to see if you match a patient with leukemia, lymphoma, sickle cell, or another life-threatening disease that can be successfully treated with a marrow cell transplant. Blood forming stem cells from an unrelated donor is the only hope for survival for over 10,000 patients each year. Most people do not have a match in their family.
To join the Marrow Registry, fill out and sign registration form. Swab your cheeks. It takes 10 minutes. Update your contact information so the registry can find you if you ever come up as a possible match for a patient. It’s that easy! O’Leary’s will be offering a FREE appetizer buffet to everyone who signs up!
If you are the one to match a patient, you will undergo careful medical screening to make sure it’s safe for both you and the patient. No more painful shot in the hip like you see in the movies. They give you a medicine to increase your production of bone marrow. You then have so much running around your bloodstream that they can draw it out of your arm like giving blood or plasma. The less common surgical procedure is performed under anesthesia if needed, so you don’t feel it. It takes about3500 people to find one match. Maybe you can be that person. Sign up at O’Leary’s on Thursday! Questions or concerns? Call 815-748-0000.
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