Mu Tau Mu of Alpha Chi Omega

Have you ever considered joining the National Bone Marrow Registry? It is a fairly simple process that could save a life. From Ann Marie ZU ’83: “5 1/2 month old Trevor Kott had been diagnosed shortly after birth with a rare form of leukemia called congenital acute myeloid leukemia (AML). His family is asking for help from the community. A bone marrow transplant is little Trevor's only hope at recovery and I am urging you to go to your local blood bank to see if you might be a tissue match. This is a PAINLESS procedure- you simply take 4 swabs to the inside of your cheeks then the blood bank will forward the samples to a lab for at National Marrow Donor Center . Please check out the Kott family's website for additional information and to read more about what you can do to help at http://www.trevorkott.com This little guy is a fighter – he was only given a couple weeks to live and has totally beaten the odds, but the clock is ticking and without a match, his days are numbered.

“Please remember: YOU could be the one in a million match for little Trevor!!”

To find a local center where you can register: http://www.marrow.org/HELP/Join_the_Registry/Join_in_Person/index.html?src=text

To register online: http://www.marrow.org/HELP/Join_the_Registry/Join_Now/join_now.html?src=text

To learn more about how the bone marrow transplant process works from a patient’s perspective watch this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK0rWV1MnZk made last year by Christine Pechera. She found a partial match last July and after spending most of last fall in the hospital is now in remission from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. A bone marrow transplant saved her life!

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