An important announcement, taken from the livejournal of my friend E. C. Myers:
28-year-old Nick Glasgow was just diagnosed with leukemia and has only weeks-to-months to live. He desperately needs a bone marrow donor but he’s a quarter-Japanese, which is a difficult racial mix for finding matching donors. I know several people with interesting mixed-Asian heritage and I hope one of us might be able to help–if not Nick then someone else. You can read about Nick’s situation and the difficulty involved with finding donors of mixed ethnicities, then if you can help I hope you will request a testing kit from the Asian American Donor Program. Kits are free for Asian-Americans and easy to use. Time is of the essence!
I requested a donor kit. I’m also 1/4 Japanese, but given the name “Nick Glasgow” and the picture, I’m afraid the other 3/4 (mine is black, his looks white) may make chances of a match slim.
Thanks for letting me know about this Mandolin, I just requested a kit.
I had no idea about the donor-matching-difficulties for mixed folk, so I really appreciate the information.
Hello, my sweet Emberly!
I’m so glad you saw this … I was actually going to suggest you check it out, being 1/4 Japanese yourself.
—Myca
I forwarded this to my cousin, who is half Japanese, half Irish-ish. She said she would get a kit and tell other mixed race Asian friends of hers. I had no idea there was so much difficulty in finding mixed race donors.