Proud of my daughter. 10 days before her wedding. Became a bone marrow match. Doing a Peripheral Blood Stem Cell donation for a leukemia patient

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pm_me_your_kindwords on December 4th, 2018 at 17:21 UTC »

You, too, can be awesome! It is easy to join the donor list! I'm copying my comment from the last time bone marrow donation came up.

Here are some links with information on how you can join the registry in your country to potentially be matched as a donor:

US: (They both add you to the same registry. It does not matter which one you use.)

https://bethematch.org https://www.giftoflife.org For military personnel: https://www.salutetolife.org/ (thanks /u/OffGide)

Other Countries:

Australia: https://www.abmdr.org.au (thanks /u/AetherLock) Canada: https://blood.ca/en/stem-cell/onematch-information-new-registrants (thanks /u/loubug) India: http://datri.org/ (thanks /u/crockrox) Ireland: https://www.giveblood.ie/Bone-Marrow/ (thanks /u/MeccIt) Germany: https://www.dkms.de/en (thanks /u/fogelmensch) The Netherlands: https://www.matchis.nl/ (thanks /u/DeltaKi87) Portugal: https://www.apcl.pt/pt/informacoes/seja-dador-de-medula (thanks /u/reddishik) South Africa: https://sabmr.co.za (thanks /u/Groat47) Singapore: https://bmdp.org/ (thanks /u/random_avocado) Spain: http://www.fcarreras.org/es/mapadonantes (thanks /u/lucialg) Sweden: http://www.tobiasregistret.se (thank /u/Steglad) Turkey: http://www.kanver.org/ (thanks /u/LGR9-D) UK: https://www.anthonynolan.org (thanks /u/Huskdoge)

International:

Germany: https://www.dkms.de/en (thanks /u/chihuahua001)

Adding a personal story. I organized a registration drive back in 2005 or so. Once every couple years or so I get an email (as the organizer) letting me know that someone who registered that day matched. It's a pretty amazing feeling. Think about if you're in a place (work, college, high school, etc) where you could get 10, 100, or 1000 people added to the registry. You can literally save many lives.

Also adding links for organizing donor drives: Gift Of Life and Be The Match They make it really easy for you. They'll send you a box full of everything you need.

Thanks to people who replied to the previous comment with new links to add. Keep 'em coming!

TooShiftyForYou on December 4th, 2018 at 17:30 UTC »

Donating bone marrow is a big deal and can save lives, thanks to your daughter.

sn00t_b00p on December 4th, 2018 at 17:45 UTC »

Dumb question but I hope the answer helps educate others; I thought the procedure to donate it was rather painful and had a recovery period, Is 10 days before the wedding going to be enough?

Edit: Tons of info and experiences here! Thanks everyone