Give hope to Kai this Mother’s Day. I’m begging you.
My friend Elizabeth Larsen first told me about Kai, an adorable five-year-old in her neighborhood in New York. His dad was diagnosed with incurable lymphoma last year. This year, Kai was diagnosed with leukemia.
A bone marrow transplant is his only hope.
You have bone marrow you don't ever even think about. I'll bet it has been decades since you thought about your bone marrow. Surely you can spare some. A simple test, a simple outpatient procedure if you are found to be a match, and suddenly you are SuperWoman or SuperMan because you. have. saved. a. life.
Please enroll to be on the bone marrow registry list. It takes so little time, and gives so much time.
- The test is simple: just a cotton q-tip swab in your mouth!
- If you are a match, donating bone marrow is a simple outpatient procedure.
- All it takes is one day out of your life to give another person a whole lifetime.
Lots of bone marrow drives are being held for Kai (and others). If you can't attend the bone marrow drive above, please visit www.dkmsamericas.org for a free kit you can use at home. Then help spread the word by forwarding this post to everyone who may be able to help.
Tess is five–Kai's age. Would I do anything in my power to save her? Would I come knock on your door in the middle of Kentucky or Iowa or California or Munich or London or Prague and beg you? Yes, yes I would. You bet I would.
Kai deserves no less. So if you don't want me showing up at 2a.m. at your house, let's save his life–and millions of others.This is what I want for Mother's Day. Thousands of 37days readers signing up to be on the registry.
That's it.
Not a red 5-quart crock pot, not those cute little Krispy Kreme mugs that look like a Krispy Kreme box and have a tiny little doughnut in the bottom of the cup and sell for $5.95 at the Krispy Kreme on Patton Avenue, and not the Garmin 305 GPS heart rate watch I've been watching on ebay. No, none of that.
I just want a simple act of generosity toward a little boy you will never meet. Please.
Let your bone marrow go forth and do good in the world.
