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UPDATE: Okay, well this is weird. So Brendan was taken off life support and is STILL living! So much so that he asked for chicken nuggets. So back to the drawing board. My cousin said they found B- donors for blood. Now they need bone marrow.

Anyone have any ideas on how to find someone with matching marrow?

1/15/2007 4:48:41 PM

is this the actual story now or is this the story from yesterday

1/15/2007 4:49:52 PM

Awesome...i was thinking you gave up a little too easily. (No offense) Good luck with the marrow search.

1/15/2007 4:51:06 PM

actual story and thats amazing that the kid lived and is still talking much less eating like that

if you can find out or need to just test out people let me know id be more than happy to donate if its possible it matches

pm me if you can figure out how to match it and i will give you my number.

i'd be more than willing to do this

1/15/2007 4:52:13 PM

thats awesome to hear. I need to find out what blood type I am. I guess I should actually go and give blood sometime

1/15/2007 4:52:25 PM

isnt bone marrow donation pretty invasive and uncomfortable?

1/15/2007 4:53:06 PM

let em gas me up, i mean i dont care if it helps the kid live longer and im fine in a day or so, its worth the hour of pain for the pleasure of life this kid can have you know??

whats pain to me compared to death for him

1/15/2007 4:55:27 PM

if you get narcotics for bone marrow donation im sure lots of people on this site would be willing to help out

1/15/2007 4:56:14 PM

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"is this the actual story now"

Yes, this is new

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"isnt bone marrow donation pretty invasive and uncomfortable?"

I don't know, is it? I guess I should google it and find out

1/15/2007 5:02:17 PM

I dunno how to go about being typed for matching, but if yall end up needing a larger pool of donors, feel free to get up with me and tell me what you need done.

1/15/2007 5:04:02 PM

like i said, i have a supply of pain medication here from when i had my wisdom teeth out

just lemme know how to figure out if i match up and if i do id be willing as im sure alot of users would

1/15/2007 5:04:06 PM

This is why you should support stem cell research.

1/15/2007 5:20:17 PM

i'll help if someone buys me icecream afterwards.

1/15/2007 5:22:43 PM

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"The surgical process of marrow collection is the most common and longest practiced form of donation. The procedure is often performed in a single day on an outpatient basis. Some collection centers may require an overnight stay, depending on the type of anesthesia used. You arrive at the hospital in the morning, change into a hospital gown, and receive an IV. You enter the operating room when the surgeon is ready. You receive general anesthesia through the IV, meaning you are unconscious throughout the surgical procedure. Some centers use a local anesthesia to numb only the area where donation will occur, and you remain conscious. Be sure to ask the center personnel how they use anesthesia. The surgeon typically removes marrow from the iliac crest, which is the back part of the pelvis (your hip bone). Several incisions—from four to eight—are made in your skin, and a large hollow needle is inserted several times through these incisions into the bone to extract the marrow. The incisions are small enough to heal without requiring stitches. About one or two pints (500-1,000 milliliters) of marrow are taken, representing only 2%-5% of your body's entire marrow. The procedure lasts 60 to 90 minutes. The bone marrow is cleaned to remove bone fragments and unwanted blood components. The marrow may also be specially treated and frozen for transportation. Frozen marrow can last as long as three years. You will be moved to a recovery room following the surgery until you wake up from the anesthesia. Then you will be moved to a hospital room. When you go home depends on how quickly you recover fully from the anesthesia. "

http://www.livingdonorsonline.org/marrow/marrow5.htm

1/15/2007 5:24:51 PM

I don't have the same blood type, but if there's some way I can help, please let me know.

1/15/2007 5:27:27 PM

who pays?

1/15/2007 5:29:45 PM

^I'm pretty sure you aren't charged for the procedure...kinda like some vets don't charge you if it's a rescue...

1/15/2007 6:06:35 PM

The Red Cross runs a national bone marrow library of sorts, where you can be cataloged based on results from a simple blood test. I don't know the specifics on how they determine who is a good candidate, but this seems like the best option.

1/15/2007 6:26:05 PM

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"isnt bone marrow donation pretty invasive and uncomfortable?"

first of all, they test your blood to see if you are a match

if so, it hurts like hell, they get it from your hip bone, with a huge ass needle....



lol, that makes it sound like you are filling a cavity, BULLSHIT, hurts like hell and takes awhile to recover

[Edited on January 15, 2007 at 7:01 PM. Reason : w]

1/15/2007 6:58:05 PM

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"isnt bone marrow donation pretty invasive and uncomfortable?"

It hurts, yeah. It's a big needle.

But it doesn't take that long and you're doing someone a great service.

1/15/2007 7:19:36 PM

Like I said in the other thread, I'm O- bloody (universal donor) ... I don't know what the requirements are for marrow but if I can help I will be happy to. I'm glad to hear that he is doing better.

1/15/2007 7:24:06 PM

Incidentally, marrow matching is more complex than just blood type. It requires matching HLA (antigens present on the cells) types. The easiest option is a sibling donor, which isn't possible in this case.

Even if the blood type is incompatible, it's possible to eliminate the red blood cells from the donated marrow (the real goal of a BMT is to transplant the progenitors of white cells).

1/15/2007 7:37:11 PM

unfortunately, my fiance and i are both A+.

best of luck to brendan and your family. it looks like some good people are coming out of the woodwork here on tww after all.

1/15/2007 7:50:04 PM

there is a bone marrow registry, which i'm sure the doctors have told your family about

i'm in the database

and if anyone in this thread is serious about helping someone in need of bone marrow, go join the registry

bone marrow matches outside of sibling relationships are rare but possible

you will probably need to go to one of their centers to get a sample of your blood taken so they can put the info in the database

i've been in the registry for about 3 years and haven't recieved a call yet

here is the info from the letter i have from the registry i'm in

National Marrow Donor Program

http://www.marrow.org

i-800-MARROW-2

National Marrow Donor Program
NMDP at Greater Southeast Area
245 Park Road PO Box 36507
Charlotte, NC 28236-6507
Phone: (888) 298-6375

[Edited on January 15, 2007 at 8:39 PM. Reason : i'm O- and have never recieved a call from the database after 3+ years, its more than just your type]

1/15/2007 8:38:05 PM

HAHA i was gonna say watch omarbadouchebag be like

THIS SHOULD BE IN THE ORIGINAL THREAD WHAT ARE YOU DOING

cause he's a choatch like that

1/15/2007 8:39:53 PM

i've had about 2000 spinal taps and anything with the bone marrow isn't very fun, but the procedures now are a lot less painful than when i was 2.5 years old. good luck!

1/15/2007 9:17:10 PM

i want to die

1/15/2007 9:18:05 PM

http://www.4yourtype.com/prodinfo.asp?number=TE001

for those who cant give blood but wanna know their blood type. you can find them for less then 10 bux if you look around.

1/16/2007 4:19:18 AM

I've been meaning to get on a bone marrow registry. I'll ask the Red Cross folks about it the next time they are at work for a blood drive.

It is very rare that you will actually be found as a match. I had a teacher in high school who was called after being on the registry for years. From what I've heard the recovery process takes a couple of days and it is painful, but it would be worth it to save a life.

1/16/2007 5:13:53 AM

bmp

1/16/2007 9:49:14 AM

Shouldn't you be asking doctors/hospitals on how to find matching bone marrow instead of TWW?

1/16/2007 10:21:41 AM

i have to imagine tww is the far reaching backup plan - if it's not then it sure as hell should be

1/16/2007 10:23:33 AM

it never hurts to try every possible outlet. a lot of marrow donors are found through message boards, word of mouth, etc.

1/16/2007 10:23:51 AM

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"isnt bone marrow donation pretty invasive and uncomfortable?"

my brother had to have a stem cell transplant (took adult stem cells from his bone marrow, then gave massive chemo, then reinjected the stem cells to help replace his blood cells that were killed during chemo).

i can tell you, the marrow extraction hurts like hell. he experienced a lot of pain during his treatment, but he said the marrow surgery was one of the worst.

1/16/2007 11:10:58 AM

Wow this is really awesome that he's actually doing better!! How long can they keep giving him transfusions?

I'm O+, so if anyone is a + and needs a pint of my blood, let me know. I should get marrow typed, I would go through the proceedure if I knew it would save someone's life. I mean, pain for a few days for me...giving someone another chance at life...the choice is obvious.

[Edited on January 16, 2007 at 11:19 AM. Reason : ]

1/16/2007 11:18:49 AM

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"the far reaching backup plan "

Exactly

TWW is not my main method. But I know how kind and generous the students are at State and figured this would be a good way to reach a lot of people at once.

Yup I read up about the whole process.

Now we just need a match. He can take b negative blood and then he needs a bone marrow match which will have to come from someone with b negative blood. Anyone?

1/16/2007 1:59:06 PM

I wish the damn typing kits from marrow.org weren't $52

Looks like if you're typed at a drive or otherwise in person, odds are good that you won't have to pay. But...the next drive in NC is in March in Charlotte, and the nearest center to campus is in Durham. I'm still gonna give them a call.

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"Center ID: 037 National Marrow Donor Program at Greater Southeast Area 3710 University Drive Suite 308 Durham, NC 27707 (800) 471-4439 (888) 298-6375"

1/16/2007 2:06:52 PM

my company was going to sell bone biopsy needles....jesus those things look scary
-random

1/16/2007 2:38:51 PM

The guy I knew who donated marrow gave it to a 3-year-old girl who ended up living after the transplant. He said that it hurt so bad he could barely move, but then one day he woke up and felt better and went off to fight in Iraq.

1/16/2007 2:40:54 PM

for me, pain is no reason to not do something (see my gallery )

1/16/2007 2:45:46 PM