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Amit Gupta hasn't found a marrow transplant match; today's your last chance.

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Re: Amit Gupta hasn't found a marrow transplant match; today's your last chance.

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Post by burgerbrain »

jarek wrote: post #80
burgerbrain wrote: post #64

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If you were going to do that, then why would you even bother with the form? You would just be wasting your time and theirs.

So that when they get a number of applicants they need but won't process or match due to policies straight out of 1991, someone maybe possibly finally gets a clue. Of course, as a white male I'm about as boring ethnically as they come, so I realize my potential for making an impact is quite low.

What do you recommend as an alternative screening requirement?

Re: Amit Gupta hasn't found a marrow transplant match; today's your last chance.

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Post by jarek »

burgerbrain wrote: post #101
jarek wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So that when they get a number of applicants they need but won't process or match due to policies straight out of 1991, someone maybe possibly finally gets a clue. Of course, as a white male I'm about as boring ethnically as they come, so I realize my potential for making an impact is quite low.

What do you recommend as an alternative screening requirement?

Hmm, I think "do you have unprotected sex with people you only know casually?" might be a start.

Re: Amit Gupta hasn't found a marrow transplant match; today's your last chance.

#103

Post by burgerbrain »

jarek wrote: post #102
burgerbrain wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you recommend as an alternative screening requirement?

Hmm, I think "do you have unprotected sex with people you only know casually?" might be a start.

Last time I gave blood, that was in fact one of the questions, more or less... iirc it asked about unprotected sex in general, though in a tighter time-frame.

Of course your particular wording is just opening a huge can of worms with "what does 'people you only know casually' mean?".

Re: Amit Gupta hasn't found a marrow transplant match; today's your last chance.

#104

Post by morrow »

kevinelliott wrote: post #84
k3dz wrote: post #53

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thinking along these lines, around 6 million children under five die in developing countries each year from malnutrition and hunger-related diseases. [1] http://www.wfp.org/hunger/stats

Yep, this is exactly where my guilt comes in. What am I doing to help any of those millions of starving children? Very little. So many people have told me throughout my life that I need to just ignore it, and you can't save the world. I can't help but think that's just their way of trying to invalidate any guilt of their own, even if they're right that it's not possible to help everyone everywhere. Though that's why…

"What am I doing to help any of those millions of starving children? Very little."

Feeling guilty isn't solving the problem, however. Guilt is just a pre-cursor to either resolve or apathy. If you don't do anything about it, you either get into a loop of guilt-> apathy-> guilt or you choose to ignore the problem (as you say your friends do).

Any action you take towards true progress for those in need, no matter how small, is good.

"The journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step"

Re: Amit Gupta hasn't found a marrow transplant match; today's your last chance.

#105

Post by jarek »

burgerbrain wrote: post #103
jarek wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hmm, I think "do you have unprotected sex with people you only know casually?" might be a start.

Last time I gave blood, that was in fact one of the questions, more or less... iirc it asked about unprotected sex in general, though in a tighter time-frame. Of course your particular wording is just opening a huge can of worms with "what does 'people you only know casually' mean?".

It can definitely be improved.

Re: Amit Gupta hasn't found a marrow transplant match; today's your last chance.

#106

Post by ryanwhitney »

eric-hu wrote: post #96

I went through the signup process a month or two ago, but got flat-rejected at the last step (after about half an hour of reading fine print). The issue: I had temporary hair loss in high school, due to an autoimmune disease according to a dermatologist. I was never tested for it, and figured I could still get tested, but the signup process just stopped me. I'm in the LA area and willing to drive somewhere to get tes…

http://marrow.org/Join/Join_in_Person/Donor_Centers.aspx#CA

first one maybe?

Re: Amit Gupta hasn't found a marrow transplant match; today's your last chance.

#107

Post by burgerbrain »

jarek wrote: post #105
burgerbrain wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Last time I gave blood, that was in fact one of the questions, more or less... iirc it asked about unprotected sex in general, though in a tighter time-frame. Of course your particular wording is just opening a huge can of worms with "what does 'people you only know casually' mean?".

It can definitely be improved.

Well, I don't think anybody disagrees there.

Re: Amit Gupta hasn't found a marrow transplant match; today's your last chance.

#108

Post by morrow »

eric-hu wrote: post #96

I went through the signup process a month or two ago, but got flat-rejected at the last step (after about half an hour of reading fine print). The issue: I had temporary hair loss in high school, due to an autoimmune disease according to a dermatologist. I was never tested for it, and figured I could still get tested, but the signup process just stopped me. I'm in the LA area and willing to drive somewhere to get tes…

Here's a start:

http://marrow.org/Join/Join_in_Person/Recruitment_Centers.as...

http://www.a3mhope.org/

http://www.a3mhope.org/index.php/donor/list-of-drives

Re: Amit Gupta hasn't found a marrow transplant match; today's your last chance.

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Post by morrow »

baddox wrote: post #29
robertdimarco wrote: post #28

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Get started with the quick questionnaire at http://marrow.org/Join/Join_Now/Join_Now.aspx and they'll mail the kit to you within a few weeks.

Seems a little late for that, unfortunately.

http://marrow.org/Join/Join_in_Person/Recruitment_Centers.as...
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