Become a Bone-Marrow Donor

My mom was given an extra 9 months on her life through a bone mar­row trans­plant, and with it the poten­tial to con­tinue her life even longer. My mom had a dis­ease called Myelofi­bro­sis where her bone-marrow was slowly being replaced by scar tis­sue and with it other prob­lems were aris­ing with her health. She had been fight­ing it for much of my life, and in 2006 she had her bone-marrow trans­plant. In fact, her trans­plant took place on July 11th, 2006. It gave us another 248 days with her on this earth, which look­ing back was very valu­able time indeed. Through out the final year and for a few months before, my mom kept a blog online. Some­thing I’ve kept up and man­aged for her: http://www.jarrett.ws/dale/

Like donat­ing blood and platelets, peo­ple can donate their bone-marrow. Bone-marrow trans­plants (BMTs) are becom­ing a more rou­tine med­ical treat­ment and so the need for an expan­sive reg­istry is becom­ing more and more impor­tant. I just recently joined the reg­istry, and in doing so I made a five minute video explain­ing the process (all done from home) to get myself added to the National Bone-marrow Registry.