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Give Someone a
Chance to Live
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letter was simply addressed: “Dear Mr Donor”, and as Shaw McIntyre read
on, the sudden realisation of what he had just done became overwhelming.
“My daughter will be three years old this month,” he read, “and your
gift is the best one I could ever have asked for: the gift of a new
life."
There aren’t many things that can shake a burly West Lothian roofer to
the soles of his working boots, but for father-of-three Shaw,
discovering he had just helped save the life of a little girl 6000 miles
away was enough to bring a lump to his throat.
You too could donate life to someone - and it's easy.
There is a desperate need for more volunteers to join the bone marrow register.
Patients are dying as suitable marrow donors cannot be found in time to
give them a life-saving bone marrow transplant. Many of these are
children.
Read the full account from the Edinburgh Evening News here.
Please don't let time run out on our
children
Less
than 3 in 10 patients find a donor in their own family so most rely on the
worldwide bone marrow register. However there is an urgent need for
more volunteers to sign up as potential donors. That need is even
greater within minority ethnic communities. You can make a
real difference.
Find out how easy it is to be a life saver
- then do it.
Can't make it to a registration drive? Then
register by post.
Find out more about how you could give
someone a real Happy New Year!
    
The above photos show men and women signing onto the bone
marrow register at a registration drive in Bristol in 2007
What is it like to donate bone marrow?
Often fear of the unknown prevents people from finding out more and
joining the bone marrow register. The best way to find out what it
is like to donate is from donors themselves. In August 2007 the Western Daily Press published two feature articles covering
personal accounts of bone marrow donors. These can be downloaded by clicking on the thumbnail
below:
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