Harder Than I Thought
Nov 13, 2009 - 12:28 PM
For the past week I have been working on a website at work for a non-profit company that does bone marrow drives all across the country (and world) to get donors signed up and educate the public on what is involved in bone marrow donations. Even though this subject hits so close to home with my brother, and me donating my bone marrow to him about 7 months ago, I thought I would be alright. I was wrong.
When you work on a website sometimes you cant help but to read the material you are working on, and reading about the process and then the success story pages I kept getting flashbacks to my experience and couldn’t help stirring up old feelings and emotions. But what can you do? The job must get done.
I am writing this to let everyone know who is curious about bone marrow transplants that the process is a lot simpler now and doesn’t take much of a commitment on your part. The process is as simple as getting blood drawn (you just have to keep the needles in for about 4 hours like an I.V.).
Because they are a client I don’t think I can send out a link to their site yet but if you do a Google search for “Organize a Bone Marrow Donor Drive” it will be the first one listed (do you like how I got around the rules there?).
I created a video when I donated my marrow and it is below in case you wanted to see it yourself.
(Disregard the teamandy.net URL and the part I say about donating, the video was made when I was raising money for LLS as part of their Man of the Year campaign.)
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