The kind folks at Global Okanagan did a great follow-up to their Oct 31 story on Nadia.
Watch the video and read the story!
Thank you Doris for telling Nadia’s story!
Remember, there are 4 ways you can help save a life like Nadia’s:
1. Please register to be a bone marrow donor at your local blood collection site or online. While you might not be a match for Nadia, you could end up helping a little boy or girl just like her. It doesn’t take much more than signing a form and quickly swabbing the inside of your mouth; it’s free and painless. You can even order the kit online! Matches can be worldwide, which increases the odds of finding a matching donor. For information on how to register, please visit the site for the registry in your country:
Canada – OneMatch.ca
US
Other Countries
2. Support the cord blood registry. Help Canadian Blood Services raise money to support a national cord blood registry, check out www.campaignforcanadians.ca.
3. Please encourage everyone you know to sign up for the bone marrow donor registry and support the cord blood registry. Feel free to share this website and Nadia’s facebook page with as many people as you can.
4. Become a blood donor. When Nadia was born, she had a couple of platelet transfusions. During the transplant she needed another 10 blood transfusions. There are a shortage of blood donors and every drop counts.
