June 29th, 2006

Several of you have expressed the desire to become typed for stem cell donors. Others have asked if you could donate blood. The blood mobile will be at Living Hope Church tomorrow during the day and will be able to facilitate either or both of these opportunities. This is a small drive because the blood mobile can only handle a limited number of patients. As of Thursday evening there are slots open in the schedule, if tomorrow works for you. To find out open schedule times call the Living Hope office and ask for Marge or Diane at 360-944-3905. They will explain the particulars to you.

Another donor drive will be coming soon at New Heights Church. This drive will only facilitate HLA typing for stem cell / bone marrow donors for the national register. There will not be the availability to give blood. I’ll give you the specifics on this drive very soon.

At this point in my treatment, I’m getting platelets every 3-5 days and blood every 5-8 days. I know during the transplant procedure that I will be getting many transfusions to be kept alive. If you give blood it will help in replenishing the local blood bank.

Thanks again for your prayers and your gracious comments.