Last day to register to be a bone marrow donor for free

Today is  it.  After today, it will be still be wonderful and the right thing to do. It will still be painless, it just won't be free.

You know you want to help. So don't put it off. 

See my prior posts, answer a few questions, swab the inside of your cheek, and maybe save a life.

Tomorrow I will get back to my personal posts, but this is a special moment and needs your attention.

Others have written me about how good they felt when they decided to become donors. Thank you all who have already said yes.

Be a Donor

Over the next few days, I have a chance to expose those who follow my blog to some chances to make a difference in the world. 

First and with my heart leaping to exploit this unique window of free opportunity,  I am going to be trying with increased vigor for the next few days to do what I can to get people to register to be a bone marrow donor. We get so few  chances to do something so completely and blindly good for a stranger. Seize it. Now would be good. See my prior post for details. No pain No expense. Just a deeply satisfying feeling.

I will be fussing with adding a widget to my blog to help automate the registration- wish me luck.

In the meantime, this caught my eye for fellow cancer survivors and maybe more: As Rabbi Wolpe said: "We are all in remission, it is just that some of us know it."

http://www.cancercare.org/get_help/tew_details.php?tew=emotional_041409&ret=/get_help/tew_archive/emotional_concerns.php&origin=enews_0609p

There will be more to come, but I don't want to dilute this special chance to be a donor.

Soon. I will return to my blog's root- how my individual story may illustrate the risks and benefits of my chosen path for others making their diverse decisions.

For now, I want to be universal, as I might not have unique story to tell if someone unknown to me, had not made a choice to be a donor- to serve the stranger.

"EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED"  

Tom Wolfe

MARROWTHON

Complete a form and maybe save a life.

Become a bone marrow donor. There is no expense and not even a blood test, just a swab from your cheek.

The only hassle is the important and lengthy online form. 

A chance to save a life for the cost of some "paperwork".

The connection is the good people at   http://www.marrow.org/HELP/Events/Marrowthon2009/index.html

Thanks. You will feel good about yourself.  I guarantee it.