{"id":295,"date":"2010-09-26T19:24:07","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T01:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.com\/blog\/?p=295"},"modified":"2010-09-26T19:24:07","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T01:24:07","slug":"disappointed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/26\/disappointed\/","title":{"rendered":"Disappointed"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been feeling frustrated about things I cannot control. Sweet Brinley<\/a> had a lemonade stand several weeks ago that raised over $6,000 for childhood cancer research. This was so amazing and touching to me. The next morning I woke up and saw all over the news that our current governor had received $700,000 in campaign contributions that same day. I know the two are totally unrelated, but it bothered me A LOT that there is such a huge discrepancy between where we as a society spend our money and where we SHOULD be spending it.<\/p>\n

Yesterday I went to sign up for the National Bone Marrow Registry<\/a>. A local boy I do not know had decided to host this for his Eagle Scout project, and someone had left a flyer on my door. The test was simple: 4 cotton swabs were used inside my cheek to collect cells. The family of this boy was willing to cover the cost of the test ($100). When I arrived at the location I was the only donor in the building. I wanted to run outside and yell at the world, “WHY isn’t everyone in here donating?”<\/p>\n

I understand it is a commitment that maybe not everyone is willing to make. By signing up, I was agreeing to donate circulating blood cells or bone marrow for anyone who is a match, until I turn 61. But these donations save lives! They save the lives of people who will DIE without a match. They save the lives of little innocent children with leukemia. (Serenity did not need a bone marrow transplant, but many children do. If she were to relapse someday she very well might.) The donation is USUALLY done via blood nowadays, not even bone marrow. I was just shocked and saddened that this event did not get a better response. Maybe people really don’t care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been feeling frustrated about things I cannot control. Sweet Brinley had a lemonade stand several weeks ago that raised over $6,000 for childhood cancer research. This was so amazing and touching to me. The next morning I woke up and saw all over the news that our current governor had received $700,000 in campaign … Continue reading “Disappointed”<\/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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295"}],"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=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}