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Baseball Primer Newsblog— The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand
Friday, May 16, 2008
Good article about a good player from my hometown. There are so many nuggets I could quote here, but I’ll go with the PSA:
Tufts University in Medford is hosting a Donor Drive, sponsored by the Dana-Farber Marrow Donor Program, June 7 in his honor. Participants can take a quick cotton-swab cheek test to see if they are a potential match to any of 6,000 people in need of this lifesaving procedure.
Monbouquette says this is not just about him - that the more people who register for the National Bone Marrow Donor Registry, the more lives will be saved, especially children’s.
FWIW, I’ve been on the Registry for 15+ years, and I’ve recently found out I’m a match for someone (apparently not Monbo, according to the article).
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My understanding is that it used to be a lot more painful than it is now. Also, I'm told a lot of donations now don't require harvesting of actual marrow, but rather a certain type of cells in one's blood - and that's relatively easy.
Here's some info.
There are two ways to harvest the marrow. One is that you're given injections of a medication and then, a couple of days later, they take blood from a vein in your arm. The injections may cause flu-like symptoms.
The other way involves withdrawing the marrow from your hip bone. You're under anasthesia during the procedure (I think it was about an hour) but there's some slight pain afterwards. The doctor said it would feel like I'd slipped on the ice and landed on my hip.
I sent him a SASE with an autograph request a few years back, but he dipped into his own pocket to send me a larger signed photo instead. Little thing, I know, but 99% of the population wouldn't have done it.
Here's wishing him the best.
I wish him a full recovery.
Here's to his recovery.
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