My cousin Joey Arcuri is battling his 3rd round against Leukemia. He will now need an allotransplant of bone marrow, which is from a donor in the community, to save his life. I signed up to become a bone marrow donor last week and made a video explaining how easy it is to sign up. I encourage you to take just a few minutes from your day and join. You'll need your driver's license number and contact information of two close relatives that could get in touch with you in the future if you are selected.
1. Visit www.bethematch.org
2. Sign up to be a donor - a 10 minute survey, and they will will send you a FREE kit to give 4 cheek swabs.
3. Open, swab, pop the swabs in the pre-paid envelope (5 minutes) and help to save a life.
If you are selected at some point as a match the process is far easier than it used to be, they don't have to do surgery to get your bone marrow. Instead the process is like giving blood, which makes donating a much simpler process.
