Except he was diagnosed with cancer.
Leukemia.
He's been through weeks and weeks of chemotherapy, but his doctors say his only chance for survival is a bone marrow transplant.
Sadly, only 8% of bone marrow list registrants are of African descent/African American. And for a match, the person needs to be practically IDENTICAL to you. So his chances of finding a match will be upped dramatically if there are more Nigerians on the list.
I got on the list last year, because a friend was pushing a drive for another friend of hers, a Yale Med student who is biracial (imagine how small HER numbers are) . She passed away last August.
The process is really simple. You go on the website (in this case, for a free kit go to www.dkmsamericas.org) direct link to sign up page is https://www.dkmsamericas.org/bone-marrow-donors/become-marrow-donor
Fill out the questionnaire and they will mail you a kit. All you have to do is use the Qtips to take cheek swabs and mail it back in in the pre-paid envelope.
IF (and this is a huge if) you are selected to be a donor, you go in, do some additional testing, and they use a syringe to take some marrow out of your pelvis (not much tougher than giving blood) and thats it.
I have posted a link to Seun's HuffPo article here
and his blog is at http://nigeria2014.wordpress.com/
Help save this guys life.
Please pass on this information. Even if you are not a match for Seun, you may be able to save someone else's life by signing up.
