Wow! I dont know him and I am brought to tears.
It certainly highlights the benefits of investing in Health Care to improve and save lives. SciFi happening today!
Amit Gupta has found a 10/10 matched donor
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#42We look forward to reading about your successful recovery on HN during your next stretch. Good luck!
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#43I'll admit I got a little "misty" reading that - what a roller coaster. I'd love to know a little bit more about the donor (e.g. who they are, how they were found, etc..) Godspeed Amit!
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#44I found out while in a taxi cab this morning & I started crying. So thankful. So glad I could (maybe) help. It's such a simple thing to save someone's life like this. Please register to be a marrow donor today. It's no more work than sucking on a lollipop & even the donation process these days is usually not much worse than blood donation (it just takes longer): http://marrow.org/Join/Join_Now/Join_Now.aspx This is E…
All right, you're the one who finally got me. Each time Amit's story has come up on HN someone has posted a link how to join, and each time I'm closer to deciding to do so, but always got a little scared before I pulled the trigger.
Now that I see Amit found a donor and the system works (my eyes teared up a little reading his post), I finally decided I need to join.
So, for everyone else like me who has needed just a bit more motivation; go on and join the registry. I just filled out the forms and requested the cheek swab kit. It takes about 15 minutes to fill out the forms, and then in two weeks they'll send you a cheek swab kit with instructions and a return envelope. Not too bad, so far...
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#45Overall, 75% of AML transplant patients survive year one, 50% make it through year five. Our thoughts are with you, best wishes!
Never tell me the odds.
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#46Overall, 75% of AML transplant patients survive year one, 50% make it through year five. Our thoughts are with you, best wishes!
It must be so ________* to have your life expectancy over the next few years calculated like that.
*Jarring, frightening, emotional, scary, disconcerting? What's the right word. Maybe all of them.
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#47Congrats on your great news, all the best wishes for you Amit! Stay strong and positive during your operations and treatments!
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#48Congratulations! My life was just extended going through the same exact thing your going to go through. I am 7 months out and life is grand. Be thankful for the small things like popsicles, laughing, and cold wash-clothes when you start throwing up.
Everything will be wonderful. Best of luck to you Amit!
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#49This is great. Very happy that he found a perfect donor. Hope all the operations go well.
Kudos to his friends and other people for helping him find the match!!
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yep, perpetuates for life. It's called Chimerism. I'd be interested (obviously) in finding out what other implications this might have for me long term besides enabling me to life a life of crime. ;-)
I was gonna say, walking around with someone else's blood sounds like it'd make for an entertaining crime drama episode.
There was an actual real-life crime episode involving that, look up Andrei Chikatilo, the police and a real trouble catching him because of mismatching blood types.
I'd give you a wikipedia link, but apparently I can't use google cache.