About the nuts & bolts of bone marrow donation

A good thing.

I signed up to be a bone marrow donor on BeTheMatch. It’s easy. You do it online. They send you a cheek swab in the mail.

I was inspired, no hyperbole, by someone in my family who was saved by a bone marrow donor. This relative is fairly private so I’ll just call him my “close relative.” The inspiration is that he’s now two years cancer free and has just been in contact with his bone marrow donor. And every time I think about the impact this donor made I tear up. He saved my relative’s life.