Welcome!

Welcome, and thank you for your interest in supporting the gift of life! I have documented my journey as a Bone Marrow Donor(BMD) with this website in hopes of spreading awareness. The moments leading up to my transplant procedure made me realize that donating was just the first step. Nearly every single person I shared the news or this journey with had the following three questions:

1) What do you donate bone marrow for?

2) You only donate to family members...right?

3) Isn’t that EXTREMELY painful?

If you have any of these questions in your mind, please keep reading. This website was written for you, because YOU are someone’s cure.

Monday, July 6, 2015

Hosting a Bone Marrow Drive

What if I am not within the preferred age range to donate?

What can I do after I donate to stay involved?

What if donating isn't for me, but I still want to help?


If you have any of these questions, I have an answer for you: host a bone marrow drive!

Hosting a bone marrow drive is very very easy. Be The Match supplies everything for you, including experienced staff to help you the day of the drive.  To get started you can visit the Be The Match website by clicking here:

https://bethematch.org/support-the-cause/participate/host-a-donor-drive/

All you have to do is help spread the word to get people to attend the drive. My family hosted a drive at our church and they made our job easy by posting information in the church bulletin handed out every Sunday.

My wonderful parents and husband hosting a drive

Another amazing part about hosting a drive is the people you meet. We met a man who had a bone marrow transplant earlier in the year and is now thriving! 

Bone marrow recipient and cancer survivor!

If you have any questions please let me know, do not miss out on a chance to get more people on the registry. You never know who could be someone's cure!