"You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much" (youcantellafinn)
10/31/2013 at 14:43 • Filed to: AWESOMESAUCE
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"You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much" (youcantellafinn)
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Giovanni Guglielmo ( !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! ) was only five months old when doctors broke the news: He would die before his first birthday without a bone marrow transplant. His father Michael went to work. When he was told his son's chances were 1 in 20,000 for a match he replied, "no problem. I will put 20,000 people in the registry. And they looked at me like I was crazy." One donor at a time, he pulled it off and for Giovanni, he found a match. But it was not enough to save him. Last spring, Giovanni was five years old when he took his last breath at Boston's Children's Hospital. Despair hit Michael hard, but he dedicated himself to the mission to start bone marrow registry drives throughout New England. Over 65,000 people have registered and 210 matches have been made. 210 second chances at life. Michael's goal is to gather 100,000 donors, a tribute to Giovanni who he calls, "my hero."
Video in the linked !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! .
505Turbeaux
> You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
10/31/2013 at 14:48 |
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I am part of a separate registry, that I am sure is linked to this one. Good stuff, take a swab and send it in. If you want to go through with it then, great, if not, you still have the choice to opt out. At least give someone the chance to live. Thanks
Bytemite
> 505Turbeaux
10/31/2013 at 15:10 |
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Does extracting the bone marrow hurt?
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505Turbeaux
> Bytemite
10/31/2013 at 15:32 |
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I believe it does, but they have drugs for that