Johann Castillo spent many years too weak to enjoy the pleasures of life. It has no energy to play with her two young children or even climb stairs. That all changed when Castillo received a transplant of bone marrow stem cells last year. 12 months later, Castillo took life by the horns, training to join the Be The Match Walk + Run held April 11 in Montrose Grove Harbo 16.
The participation of Castillo contributed to the effort to raise money to support the non-profit, Be the match, in their work to find bone marrow donors for critically ill patients.
the odds of finding a bone marrow match can be low. Only 30% of patients search are able to locate their families. That's why Be The Match work is so important - recruits volunteers organizing bone marrow donors and help to correspond with transplant patients waiting
As the largest registry in the world, the game has a long potential list. bone marrow donors and cord blood units that contain all the same hematopoietic cells such as bone marrow.
He was the cord blood donated by anonymous parents of a newborn, who provided stem cells that doctors Castillo used for transplantation to March 2014.
After the transplant, Castillo had to be extremely careful, because his immune system was not practiced. He was unable to interact with his children or family while it heals
Today, the contrast is remarkable - .. Castillo went to take more than 50 medications a day to take one , a multi-vitamin
about be the match
for those deadly attacks blood cancers - such as leukemia and lymphoma - or other diseases, a cure exists. The game connects patients with their donor match for a bone or life-saving umbilical cord blood transplant. People can be someone's healing as a member, volunteer or financial contributor Be the Match Registry. The game offers patients and their families one-on-one support, education and guidance before, during and after transplantation. Be The Match is operated by the National Marrow Donor Program ® (NMDP), a nonprofit organization that matches patients with donors, educates professionals in health care and conducts research so more of lives can be saved. For more on healing, visit BeTheMatch.org or call 1 (800) MARROW-2.
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