Friday, October 16, 2009

A wonderful young man.

Some of you know that my dear friend, Mary Ellen's daughter has Leukemia, the same kind that Jennifer's best friend Carol died from. She is in her 30's. She was in desperate need of a bone marrow transplant. Her brother was not a match and her parents were too old. A 24 year old man who did not know Emberly or her family had volunteered on a donor list. He was a good match. And he went through the marrow donation. Not a pleasant or easy thing to do. Today after about three weeks Emberly has been moved to The City of Hope apartments for the next 100 days. This week her doctor said, after a bone marrow test, that all the cells were of the donor, which is very good news. Thanks to a stranger she has a good chance of surviving. They will not reveal the name of the donor for a YEAR.

3 comments:

Susannah said...

i'm a bone marrow donor! at least, i'm on the list!

mom said...

Thats wonderful Susie
Love, Muna

Susannah said...

eh, if i match with someone they'll pay to fly me to whereever, and you know me, i'm always up for leaving bakersfield.