bonemarrowawareness

My battle against cancer

bonemarrowawareness — Mon, 06 May 2013 20:12:21 +0000

Here is a video I made on my battle against cancer. Share it around and tell all of your friends, If it can inspire even one person it has served its purpose.

kick Cancer

bonemarrowawareness — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 22:02:31 +0000

A very kind and reassuring message sent to our Facebook (< Click) page from someone that has donated.

”As soon as any one finds out that I donated bone marrow , they always ask “but didn’t it hurt” ??So , can I reassure you :

No, it didn’t hurt…. I donated through the PBSC method, basically my stem cells were extracted through my blood , in a process like blood donation, although slightly longer .

This method is used in 90% of cases …. And the donor gets to make the decision on the method in most cases .

Your natural bone marrow production is stimulated to over produce , so the donation comes from extra bone marrow your body produces

After donating , you temporarily leave the register for a year. You are special reserve….. In case your recipient needs a top up

You can ask to be kept informed about your recipients progress …. But you don’t have to know

You can donate blood again after 6 months

If you join the register there is approx a 3% chance of you matching

When someone needs a BMT it is their LAST chance

Want to know anything else ???

Just ask

Thanks for reading x”

Join today and help save lives.

A sad day

bonemarrowawareness — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 11:07:12 +0000

Today is a sad day with the news that Alice Pyne lost her battle with cancer (Anyone who watched Pride of Britain last year, she was the young lady with the bucket list) She has already done so much for the Bone Marrow world.

www.bonemarrowawareness.com is going to be living strong this year.

Rip Alice Pyne

2012 in review

bonemarrowawareness — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:20:05 +0000

I just wanted to share with all you amazing people how successful you made us in 2012 and all that was only since June.

Here’s to 2013 the year of BMA.

Thank you

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 7,700 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 13 years to get that many views.

Click here to see the complete report.

New year New Post

bonemarrowawareness — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 16:27:39 +0000

So we are 90 views away from 8000, I started this site in June and with no formal publicity we are almost at 8000, I just want to give a huge thank you to everyone that has helped support us.

It has been a little while since I have posted but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been busy. The Bone Marrow Documentary that I am working on will be finished by the end of this month. Also this site will be getting a massive over haul with the new addition of the Bone Marrow Community forum that I have posted about before.

If your in the South West of England then I should be on the news with my story in the next couple of months. I will post on here/Facebook/Twitter when I know an hopefully I will be able to put a link up here once its aired.

If anyone watched the ITV show ‘text Santa’ before Christmas you would have seen Anthony Nolan on there. It;s been amazing how much money that has been raised and so many peoples lives can be potentially saved because of this. The story they showed of Martin who is looking for a donor was really inspiring and If you aren’t already then please head over to their Facebook page and like it, Match4Martin (Click on the link)

Also If you view this website please show your support by liking our Facebook and Twitter pages. We need your support so please please please share us about to all your friends and families.

Welcome to 2013. The Year of BMA.

Christmas Giveaway.

bonemarrowawareness — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 22:00:06 +0000

To get us in the spirits of Christmas and still raise awareness from now until the 1st December we have a competition.

1. If we can hit 8000 views on this site I will pick on lucky winner at random from either BMA followers on Facebook or Twitter to win our Christmas giveaway.

2. If we hit 1500 followers on Twitter I will pick one lucky winner from all of the followers to win.

3. If we can hit 200 likes Facebook I will pick one winner from the 200 likes to win.

There’s 3 chances to win so get all your friends and families to view the website and like us on Twitter and Facebook so you can be in with a chance to win.

Together we can help kick cancer and help save lives.

Shocking Numbers

bonemarrowawareness — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:14:08 +0000

I am doing some research for the BMA documentary film that I am making and I thought about other donations and transplants. I knew there was obviously going to be a difference between the likes of bone marrow and organ/blood donations but I thought I would share these with the BMAnation just to show how important it is to join the donor register.

Organ doantions:

Between 1/4/2011 – 31/3/2012

3,960 transplants from 2,143 donors
almost 942,000 people pledged to donate organs after they died.
Taking the total of people on the organ donor list to 18,693,549.

Blood donations:

In 2009 1.6 million people donated blood

Bone Marrow:

Anthony Nolan currently has over 400,000 people on their donor register.
Currently worldwide there is 12 Million people registered.

More people donated Blood in the UK in 2009 than there is currently on the bone marrow donor register even though the procedure to donate bone marrow is almost the same as donating blood.

70% of people needing a bone marrow transplant cannot find a compatible match in their families and have to look to the generosity of strangers who are on the register, with 50% not being able to find a compatible match.

If this isn’t enough of a reason to join the bone marrow donor register today, Just think that cancer hits 1 in 3 and you could be saving the life of a loved one.

Join the register today and help save lives.

PS: continue to tweet with the hash tag #BoneMarrowEnders. I working hard on getting a bone marrow recruitment drive in Albert Square.

Be a donor Give a spit

bonemarrowawareness — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 19:23:38 +0000

Albert Square

bonemarrowawareness — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 20:54:51 +0000

Here is the plan.

I am going to email Eastenders almost everyday and ask them to hold a bone marrow donor drive in Albert Square.

Why?

Because they are one of the biggest TV shows in the UK and if they hold one and the millions of viewers see how simple and straight forward it is to register more people are likely to join up.

I highly doubt they will even reply to me but if I wasn’t the only person to do this then they may consider it. So I need you guys to tweet Eastenders as much as you can with the hash tag #bonemarrowenders, write all over the Eastenders Facebook wall and if you have time and want to email them too then feel free to do it as much as possible.

Tell all your friends the more people we can get involved the more likely someone somewhere will take notice.

We could potentially help save so many lives and so much Bone Marrow Awareness can be raised.

Together Let’s Kick Cancer and Give A Spit

Bone Marrow Community

bonemarrowawareness — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 20:15:49 +0000

Bone Marrow Community.

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