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Amit Gupta has found a 10/10 matched donor

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Re: Amit Gupta has found a 10/10 matched donor

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Post by 97s »

araneae wrote: post #30
rmk wrote: post #3

Thank God!

Oh no, I'm going to be that person. Thank science! (And also those people who participated in a campaign to help him get a match.) My mom was diagnosed with a rare variant of AML (APML or APL) in April 2011. When she was admitted to the hospital, she had at maximum one or two days left to live before she would have hemorrhaged to death without medical attention (no platelets). When APML was first discovered in 1957,…

A lot of people who believe in God, can credit human discovery and science to the God given ability to learn things.

This isn't a place for this discussion so I am not going to go further into this. We should all be happy for Amit and anyone who finds a 10/10 match. I know I was thankful for my donor.

Re: Amit Gupta has found a 10/10 matched donor

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Post by bmajz »

ahoyhere wrote: post #34
rdl wrote: post #25

Note that if you sign up with the donors.marrow.org registry in January, American Express is covering all the registry's costs (about $100 per new donor candidate), so it's a particularly good time to sign up.

Clickable link with Amex sponsorship details: http://marrow.org/Join/Join_Now/Join_Now.aspx

Thanks!

Re: Amit Gupta has found a 10/10 matched donor

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Post by fady »

losvedir wrote: post #44
ahoyhere wrote: post #39

I 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…

wow, and you were the one who got me! i "was" in the same boat..passed it up, but after reading your post and the follow up, i just had to signed up.

good luck; eat healthy.

update: just finished signing up and it took a whole 7 mins. thanks for the nudge :) http://dl.dropbox.com/u/103326/Slingshot/Pictures/Screen%20S...

Re: Amit Gupta has found a 10/10 matched donor

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Post by ahoyhere »

fady wrote: post #55
losvedir wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

wow, and you were the one who got me! i "was" in the same boat..passed it up, but after reading your post and the follow up, i just had to signed up. good luck; eat healthy. update: just finished signing up and it took a whole 7 mins. thanks for the nudge :) http://dl.dropbox.com/u/103326/Slingshot/Pictures/Screen%20S...

Thank you, lovesdir & fady!! You could totally have just set yourself up to save a life. Isn't that amazing? Yes, I'm all moony right now but I'm so happy.

If you're reading this & on the fence about registering, especially if you are non-white or mixed race (& ESPECIALLY Asian + Caucasian), please check out this little site about an adorable little 4-year-old boy who loves sharks and desperately needs to find a donor:

http://kyleneedsyou.org/

And do it now. Not only because doing it now means it'll actually get done, but because Amex is sponsoring the charity this month and paying for all their test-related costs -- meaning the more tests they register in January, the more money Be The Match will have left for future months & for getting the word out:

http://marrow.org/Join/Join_Now/Join_Now.aspx

Re: Amit Gupta has found a 10/10 matched donor

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Post by Jasber »

fady wrote: post #55
losvedir wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

wow, and you were the one who got me! i "was" in the same boat..passed it up, but after reading your post and the follow up, i just had to signed up. good luck; eat healthy. update: just finished signing up and it took a whole 7 mins. thanks for the nudge :) http://dl.dropbox.com/u/103326/Slingshot/Pictures/Screen%20S...

This just pushed me into signing up too. I thought it would be a long complicated process. It wasn't. Definitely worth it.

Re: Amit Gupta has found a 10/10 matched donor

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Post by superamit »

MichaelApproved wrote: post #46
ck2 wrote: post #8

Overall, 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.

Those first couple weeks I was pretty sad and felt sorry for myself a lot. When friends started organizing drives I got totally immersed in helping to organize those and forgot about everything else. When that trailed off, I guess I'd come to terms with it. I wish I knew exactly how long I had, but nobody ever does.

I'm looking forward to using this as an excuse to do a lot of things I'd been putting off and living the life today that I always figured I'd love someday.

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