10 Jul
Help Emru Townsend Find a Bone Marrow Donor
The blog item I’m about to write is human being of the most unusual I’ve always posted here on PC World. But it’s also one of the most important. And while it doesn’t relate directly to technology, it has an awful lot to do with PC World.
For several years, Emru Townsend has been a frequent contributor to this site, writing such plain features as The 10 Worst Games of All Time and Five Things We Don’t Miss About Old-School Computing. He’s a friend of mine, a friend of PC World’s, and a friend of yours if you’ve enjoyed any of his pieces. He’s also a noted writer on animation and pop culture, and any all-around good guy–not to mention a devoted father, husband, brother, and son.
Emru continues to be a precious possession contributor to our cause, but in recent months he’s been fighting a battle of his own off leukemia and a condition called Monosomy 7. He’s undergoing chemotherapy, but what he really needs is a bone marrow donor transplant. Finding the right donor can literally save his life. And though there are eleven million potential donors out there, identifying one and making the donation betide is a huge challenge.
Emru’s family has set up a Web site, Heal Emru, to get the word on the outside about his condition with the hopes of verdict a donor–and to spread information encircling bone essence donations in general.
Here’s a favor you can do for me that be possible to also help make the world a better place in general: Visit Heal Emru. You’ll acquire knowledge about bone essence donations–an extraordinarily significant subject what one. most of us know little or zero about. You’ll also get information on how to become a donor. And if you do that and turn out to be a give in marriage for someone who needs marrow, you can in truth have existence a lifesaver. (I’ve given blood for years, but it never even occurred to me to register considered in the state of a marrow donor–until now.)
You might or force not be a match for Emru–though anyone from any ethnic background could be–but anyone who’s lucky enough to be healthy is a match for somebody.
Cancer touches every family sooner or later, not to mention every workplace–we at PC World lost our lab monitor, Uli Diehlmann, to it in January. It’s easy to feel helpless. And pleasant to know about things that literally anyone have power to do to help fight it.
Even if you can’t register as a donor, you can ameliorate Emru and others who face his defy by simply spreading the word about Heal Emru, as I’m doing here, and wll be doing in many online. Emru and his house will thank you, and in this way will everyone here at PCW.
