This blog is full of random things I wrote. Some of those things are about this one time when I cured cancer. Read: I was an anonymous bone marrow donor, matched through the National Marrow Donor Program (after registering in September of 2006). I wrote here and there about the process of being matched, and wrote extensively about the surgery I had. You can read about it first here, and then here, and finally here.
Some of it is depressing and frustrating, and my recovery from the surgery was long and unusually difficult, but I would hand over another liter of my marrow again in a minute, and I would encourage other healthy folks to do the same.
Lots of people have asked me how they can get involved with this curing cancer business.
Here is how you start: you start like this.
You register by swabbing your cheek with a qtip thing and then they put your qtip thing in a bank, and when you match someone, you maybe get to save their life. Maybe they die along the way, maybe you’re never matched with anyone, maybe it turns out you can’t donate, but that is how you start. And you should.
If you have questions
