Also, I forgot to mention this on my post last night; I keep sharing stuff on Facebook for Mai Duong, the Vietnamese woman who is in desperate need of a donor. Asians (and other visible minorities) are so very much under-represented in the stem cell/bone marrow donor registry. If you haven't sent for a swab kit, do it! It takes 5 minutes, doesn't hurt, and can save a life. It doesn't matter where you live; the registry is global! The whole world has access to it. Please do it. Even if you're not Asian. There's no such thing as too many donors. Recently I've been sharing info about a young man of 23 (!) named Marc-André Skelling who also desperately needs a donor. He has Hodgkin's lymphoma and is of Irish and French origin.
Here is Marc-André Skelling's Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/trouvonsundonneur
*It's in french; if anyone reading this doesn't know french and wants me to translate, just ask me and I'll be happy to translate anything you want word for word. :)
I shared Mai's info a few posts ago, but here's her Facebook page again:
https://www.facebook.com/savemaiduong
Also, Mai's website, which explains the process of a bone marrow transplant and many other things. There's a lot of good info here; not just on Mai, but on stem cells, bone marrow, transplants, donors, where you can get swab kits (no matter where you live in the world), etc:
sosmai.com/en/
Please please please take 5 minutes to send for a swab kit and send it back! LIVES can be saved. Please. <3
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