Many years ago when my mom was diagnosed with multiple myeloma I decided to register as a bone marrow donor. There is a $52 fee for the testing kit, and each time I thought about donating I put it off a little bit longer. Years have gone by and I still haven’t been tested.<\/p>\n
The National Bone Marrow Registry has set a goal of 46,000 new members. Until June 22, or until that goal is met, you can register as a bone marrow donor for free<\/strong>. (A donor is covering the testing kit fee.)<\/p>\n I’ve registered already, and I hope that you will consider too. I hope that Serenity will never need a bone marrow donation, but it is a very real possibility, and finding a match isn’t always easy. The test just requires you swab the inside of your mouth, and then mail the swab back for testing.<\/p>\n Please think about becoming a bone marrow donor at http:\/\/marrow.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Many years ago when my mom was diagnosed with multiple myeloma I decided to register as a bone marrow donor. There is a $52 fee for the testing kit, and each time I thought about donating I put it off a little bit longer. Years have gone by and I still haven’t been tested. The … Continue reading “Be the Match Marrowthon”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}