Do you want to become a bone marrow donor?
Don't drink on Friday
Valery Panyushkin, Echo of Moscow
Do not drink alcohol and do not eat fatty foods, because on Saturday, September 17th, at the Hematology Research Center in Moscow and in forty other cities across Russia, it is donor Day. And this is an unusual donor day. On this day, potential bone marrow donors will be typed.
You will come in the morning from 9 to 13 to the Hematology Research Center at Novy Zykovsky Proezd, house 4. At the checkpoint, you will say that you are going to the donor department. From the entrance to the territory, turn left, you will find a door with the inscription "Entrance for donors". They'll meet you there.
There will be a lecture on bone marrow transplantation in the morning, if anyone is interested. But you don't have to listen to her. There will be a chair in a separate room there. You will sit in it, and the nurse will take some blood from your vein. That's all. You're going home. Meanwhile, your blood is being typed. This means that the analysis of your DNA will be in the registry, in a list of thousands of people, each of whom may one day become a bone marrow donor to a person in need of a bone marrow transplant. It will take some time. A few months, maybe a few years. Most likely, you will forget that the information about your blood is entered in the register of bone marrow donors. You will live somehow. Your life will be moderately happy, I hope. But misfortunes will also happen to you, because they happen to everyone. And sometimes you will probably think about why you live, what is the meaning of your life, who in the world needs you. Sometimes, maybe, it will seem to you that no one needs you, because it seems so from time to time even to the happiest and most accomplished people.
But one day you will get a call. They will call and say that you have approached someone as a bone marrow donor. You may be busy that day. You might get scared. Perhaps you will change your mind and refuse. But if you don't change your mind and refuse, then you will come to the clinic, they will examine you a little, and then under general anesthesia they will pierce your pelvic bones with a needle and suck some bone marrow out of your pelvic bones. Don't be afraid, it's not dangerous. The bone marrow will recover quickly.
When you wake up, it will hurt a little. The pelvic bones at the puncture site will ache a little. And there will also be a feeling as if the pelvic bones are soft. But in a couple of days everything will pass. And they won't tell you how the transplant went, whether the patient who was transfused with your bone marrow cells is alive. They won't tell you anything about him for another two years.
And again, you will probably forget about how you were a donor. Or if your children are naughty and afraid of injections, you will tell them that you don't need to be afraid of injections, and that you even had an injection in the bone once, and that's okay. Or you'll just forget. It will take another two or three years.
And then one day you will get another call. They will call you and tell you that the person to whom your bone marrow cells were transfused is alive. Survived the transplant, got out of complications. Survived! Recovered! They will call you and tell you that you have saved a person.
Any questions about blood and bone marrow donation can be asked by phone 8-903-128-84-18 (from 9.00 to 22.00)
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15.09.2016