{"id":3718,"date":"2006-08-22T11:39:30","date_gmt":"2006-08-22T16:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=3718"},"modified":"2006-08-22T11:42:39","modified_gmt":"2006-08-22T16:42:39","slug":"save_her_life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/22\/save_her_life\/","title":{"rendered":"Save Her Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/savenirali.com\/nirali\/Main\/HomePage\"><center><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"nirali3.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/nirali3.jpg\" width=\"391\" height=\"472\" \/><\/center><\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>That precious, happy little girl you see above is Nirali.  She has <u>Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia<\/u> (Thanks, bean).  According to the following,<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>Despite overall improvements in outcome, the prognosis for patients&#8230;is poor. Their estimated event-free survival (EFS) is only about 30%. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emedicine.com\/ped\/topic2587.htm\">link<\/a>] <\/blockquote>\n\n<p>her life is very much at stake, so the way I titled this post isn&#8217;t sensational or an exaggeration of any kind.  After losing an Uncle to Leukemia two years ago and having an even closer family member go to the hospital <em>this week<\/em> because of the looming possibility of cancer, Nirali&#8217;s story makes me want to weep.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>She needs a bone marrow transplant.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>She needs that transplant from someone who is <strong>brown<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<p>There aren&#8217;t anywhere near enough desis in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marrow.org\/\">National Marrow Program database<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>We have no excuse for this.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>I am terrified of needles, I&#8217;ve said this many times.  I avoid flu shots, because I find them so traumatic, but even <em>I<\/em> sacked up and then felt like the biggest baby for being afraid of the &#8220;typing&#8221; process which put me in the database of potential donors.  Apparently, they&#8217;ve even taken care of THAT obstacle; now you can just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marrow.org\/HELP\/join_the_registry.html\">get your cheek swabbed<\/a> and that is enough.<\/p>\n\n<p>Look <a href=\"http:\/\/savenirali.com\/nirali\/Main\/UpcomingDrives\">here<\/a> for a desi-centric list of opportunities to join the database, nationwide.  Go.  Give a tiny part of your physical self.  And then pray, if you are inclined to do so, that we follow-up this post with some joyful news.\n<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That precious, happy little girl you see above is Nirali. She has Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (Thanks, bean). According to the following, Despite overall improvements in outcome, the prognosis for patients&#8230;is poor. Their estimated event-free survival (EFS) is only about 30%. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/22\/save_her_life\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,10,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}