Thread by @AynRandPaulRyan

I generally don't post updates about my husband's health on Twitter, but I'm asking a favor today.

For those of you who aren't aware, my husband was diagnosed with AML (acute myeloid leukemia) at the beginning of the year. 1/

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Darius' oncology team originally thought he could be treated with chemotherapy alone. It turns out, that's not going to happen. So, he needs a stem cell transplant, but no one in his family is a match for donation.

Maybe you are? 2/

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Donating stem cells is not painful. It's very similar to donating blood. It takes a few hours, you don't have to travel to do it, and you could save someone's life.
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Please pass this link around and ask your friends and family members to consider being a stem cell donor.

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Not really. The whole idea of getting tested to see if you are a match is that your match status will live in their facility unless or until it is needed, so you might not be a match for my husband, but you could be a match for someone else!

https://twitter.com/Pstthomas/status/1380694963856539652?s=20

A lot of folks in this thread are sad that they are "too old" to be screened as a stem cell transplant donor.

That is true at Be The Match, but there are other registries as well. DKMS screens people up to the age of 55.

dkms.org/register-now