Busy Bee

I have not had the chance to update my blog lately because I have been inundated with work: from clinic to journal to classes to APALSA, things have simply been chaotic. I find that a lot of my free time has become devoted to running. Thankfully, I have some great friends (and my Team from Team in Training!) who I can run with and who keep me going.

Keeping this in mind, I thought I would share some information about bone marrow registry drives.

http://www.helpingjanet.com/

Janet Liang, a recent graduate of UCLA, my alma mater, was recently diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. She, like all of us, has many dreams and ambitions for her life and needs our help to win the fight against her cancer.

The Asian American and Pacific Islander community is very much under-represented in bone marrow registry. Bone marrow matches often correlates with ethnicity so it is SUPER important that we all, Asian Americans in particular, change this.

Becoming part of the registry only requires a swab of your inner cheek. After this, you will only be contacted if you are a match for someone and then you can decide if you want to donate. Donating bone marrow is similar to giving blood.

Please consider putting yourself in the bone marrow donor registry. You can help save a life.

There will be a bone marrow registry drive at Boston University School of Law on Monday, November 2nd from 12-3 PM.

Please also keep my marathon efforts and fundraiser for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in your hearts. Any support to this will mean so much to the blood cancer research efforts, to patient care, and to me. http://pages.teamintraining.org/ma/wdw10/sliuie

Thanks so much.

Love,
Shannon