Donor @ MindSay

So, aside from the fact that I'm Caucasian, does anyone have any valid reasons why I shouldn't be involved with the NMDP?

I was thinking about it for awhile, definitely planning on it, but my mom asked me to wait until semester break, to make sure that I was serious. (Admittedly, Mom and I don't see eye-to-eye on this. Her phrase was, "What is it with you and wanting to give parts of your body away?!" Perhaps I should have waited a bit longer between the Locks of Love thing and mentioning this to her.)

Come about the end, middle, or maybe even beginning of November, plans had drastically altered, and I was seriously looking at a commitment that would have me haring off into other lands (or not) and belonging to the government. So, I shelved this plan, declaring that the DAY I got out of the military, I would go on the NMDP registry.

Much ado later, military is no longer a viable option. They'll have to do some pretty promising to win me over. It's not an impossibility, but it's not very likely. So, I'm looking at this again.

It's technically just putting your specs on the list, and promising that if anyone DOES ever match up with you, you'll consider donating, and let them know promptly either way. These are the arguments I make to my mom. After having a friend or two go through leukemia, my answer's evident as soon as I'm asked, but I don't tell her that. Unless I'm, y'know, pregnant at the time that they ask me, but I think I'm considered ineligible if that be the case.

Thoughts against from anyone?

So i gave blood today at school, well tried to. I sat there hooke dup an hour and only managed to drain like 1/4 a pint. it was rediculous. In the matt world, we went to breakfast on sunday andhe asked me to go to the movies, no popcorn throwing this time. I know he is the person writing the messages on socialmoth anonymously. they are always so sad or about how he isnt over erica. i wish, i could help him... i wish he could know for sure that i would never do to him what she did. How can you date someone for 2 years and then just cheet on them for no reason right in front of them. You would have to have steel balls. and i feel like its compleatly changed the person he was, he used to be so happy go lucky and optomistic. But i know what that feels like to have someone do that to you, i know all too well exactly what it feels like, look this is what he wrote:

 

Your my first thougt in the morning
My last thought before bed
I loved you more than anything else in my life
And I was even going to ask you to wed.

In one day my entire world was destroyed
2 years later i'm begining to heal
In all this time of pain and tortue, one thought in my head
Why does this have to be so real?

I love you, I really do...

 

 

 

arg, i dont know what to do, i know i should just wait, but its hard just being a friend, and i want him to move on but i know its only going to happen if he wants it to. I know hes dated like 3 girls since erica, and i think it all ended horribly, and i still want to be his friend, and is he really sleeping with julia(like its any of my business) and what is he making me for xmas, will he make me anything. God i have it bad for him..... and the truth is im not compleatly over my lost relationship with fabio, but i have to be strong because he will be here for xmas and wants me to hang out with him and take some snapshots, so idk

Does your family know your wishes regarding organ donation?  Would you donate your childs organs? 

 

 

 

Whenever you get your driver's licence renewed they ask if you want to be an organ donor, but the don't really take the time to educate you about what that means to the recipiant family, and they don't ask you to consider donating your childs organs if something where to happen to your child.  Everyday adults and children are killed in accidents, and if there is no positive record that they want to be an organ donor, then the organs can not be harvested.  What do you need to know to make an educated decision about organ donation?

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/bone-marrow/CA00047

 

http://www.nmdp.org/

 

I had dinner last night with one of my boarding school charges whom I'd not seen since the end of school last year.  She had had a very rough year because her mother was very ill with cancer and thousands of miles away.   Last night I learned that Mom had received a bone marrow transplant and is currently in remission.

 

Marrow transplant is crucial for some patients and finding donor matches is more difficult than finding matches for blood or other organ donations. 

 

The National Marrow Donor Program is holding donor drives in major cities.  If there isn't an actual drive in your area, you can start the process by registering online - see the links above.  If you have time to read blogs, you have time to sign up. 

 

Thanks!

 

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i gave blood today at my school. i just got done so i m feeling a little sleepy and lightheaded but otherwise it was okayexcept for the first stick , it hurt but i'll live i guess. it was kinda funny because when i go tdone the lady doing it was like "You look pale ." andi tried to get up cuz i thought we were done and ahe was all "no drink  this eat crackers" anyway i think i scared her a bit. lol well it wasnt as bad as i thought it would be so i will definitley do it again. its a good cause.