[BIC-announce] Fwd: bone marrow transplant needed for former student reps daughter

[Zografos 'Aki' CARAMANOS]

FYI

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From: Corree Laule <claule at physics.ubc.ca>
Date: Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 5:14 PM
Subject: bone marrow transplant needed for former student reps daughter
To: White Matter Study Group <white_matter at ismrm.org>


 Dear White Matter Study Group Members,

Many of you may know Thor Bjarnason - he was the WMSG student rep a few
years ago, has been involved in quantitative T2 work and is now working as
a medical physicist in Kelowna, BC. His almost 2 year old daughter Nadia
has recently been diagnosed with a very rare genetic disorder. She is in
bone marrow failure and is in desperate need of a bone marrow transplant.
Please see www.nadiasquest.ca for more information (and follow her on
twitter @nadiasquest)

They've checked the worldwide registry (12 million people) and haven't been
able to find a match. If you aren't already part of your country's registry
I'd like to encourage anyone eligible to sign up. Younger bone marrow works
best - in Canada you need to be between 17-35 years old,  other countries
have different age restrictions. Signing up is really easy - in Canada you
fill out an online form at www.onematch.ca and they send you a kit to swab
your cheek. That's it. For US, please visit: www.bethematch.org , for UK:
www.nhsbt.nhs.uk/bonemarrow . Links to many other countries registries can
be found here:
http://marrowdrives.org/bone_marrow_donor_programs.html#international_marrow

Please sign up if you can and please circulate this message far and wide.
You could help save the life of Nadia, or someone just like her.

best wishes,
Corree
PS Please forgive the use of this mailing list for something not directly
work related, but I hope you can appreciate the urgency and desperation of
the situation.
PPS For those of you on facebook, also check out Nadia's page there:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Nadias-Quest/674663232545926




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