A friend of mine from college has fighting lymphoma for awhile now. This past November, our college alumni helped sponsor a bone marrow match drive and partnered with Be the Match to help make it a success.

They planned the drive to happen during Homecoming weekend at our college. They were told to be happy if they had 100+ people register and test to be a match, they had almost 500 participate!

The other night my family and I were watching an episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition on ABC and they also partnered with Be the Match to help find and register donors out of their huge army of volunteers.

If you’d like to have the opportunity and the honor of saving someone’s life, visit the Be the Match website and read about what all is involved in making this difference in someone’s life. Don’t stop there though, be sure and register to be a donor.

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The email was a simple statement of what it would take to save someone’s life. Here’s some of the email. I don’t think I could say it any more clearly myself.

Most people hesitate to become a donor because they think either–

• it’s painful (No pain involved–it’s a simple cheek swab.)
• it’s complicated (It’s 30 seconds on the internet. We easily spend 30 minutes just here on Facebook.)

Here is the SIMPLE process:

1. Go to www.marrow.org
2. Click on "Join Registry"
3. It will ask you to agree to terms, give your name, email address, create a password, and give your mailing address.
4. They will mail you a cheek swab kit. You collect the cells and mail it back in.

Once they receive and test your sample. It AUTOMATICALLY goes into the system, and is checked to see if it is a match. If you have any questions at all, call 1-800- Marrow2. They are very kind and helpful there.

The registration process usually costs $50 for that initial testing, but is FREE now until June 22nd. There will never be any other cost for you. If you are a match for my sister, her insurance will cover it.

Please take a moment to do this for my sister…
for her husband who is so in love with her…
for her 3 small kids who need their mommy…
for the rest of us as her family and friends who would like to have years yet with her.

What do you do with a request like that? I’ll tell you what you do, you go visit www.marrow.org and follow the 4 steps mentioned above and you realize that your simple effort very well could save someone’s life.

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