WVU Medicine Camden Clark to host Be the Match stem cell screening at the Grand Central Mall - WTAP

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PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (WTAP) - WVU Medicine Camden Clark Medical Center volition big a Be the Match stem compartment screening accidental for assemblage members connected November 19, 2022, astatine the Grand Central Mall.

The lawsuit volition instrumentality spot from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. by Boot Barn and Books-A-Million.

On November 18, 2022, WVU Medicine Camden Clark held its ain Be the Match stem compartment screening for employees successful portion of its Thanks for Giving worker appreciation run during the period of November.

Katie Drinks, an EMT, signed up for Be the Match 10 years agone successful Maryland and received a telephone successful July astir being a lucifer for someone.

“They called maine successful July, but I didn’t reply due to the fact that it was a Minnesota telephone number, and I didn’t admit the telephone number,” Drinks said. “They emailed maine that aforesaid time and told maine I was a lucifer for someone, truthful I called them backmost and told them I would donate.

After going done a full assemblage physical, vein assessment, and humor work, 60 days later, Katie was cleared to donate bony marrow. In the days anterior to donation day, Katie received injections to assistance stimulate the achromatic humor cells retired of the bony marrow to hole for donation.

In October, Katie traveled to Cincinnati for her donation. Katie said she was tense due to the fact that she was a antithetic idiosyncratic 10 years agone with a antithetic job. She acknowledgment WVU Medicine Camden Clark and the Ritchie County Ambulance Authority for allowing her to instrumentality clip disconnected work.

Katie said she ever wanted to springiness backmost to the assemblage and would donate again successful a heartbeat.

“My family, they were each progressive successful the occurrence work erstwhile I was younger, truthful I conscionable grew up astir it, and it was conscionable a happening to do,” Drinks said. “So I would accidental my vocation arsenic a phlebotomist and an EMT, similar knowing what I cognize present astir the request for humor and humor products. is I mean, that was a batch of the crushed wherefore I did it. I mean, it feels bully to assistance people.”

Here’s however you tin assistance by attending a screening lawsuit oregon joining the Be the Match registry:

· In bid to articulation the Be the Match Registry, individuals indispensable beryllium betwixt the ages of 18 – 40.

· It takes conscionable 3 minutes to implicit the online registration signifier and 30 seconds to swab your cheek.

· Be the Match volition trial the kit and adhd you arsenic a imaginable donor to the registry.

· You lone donate your stem cells if you are called arsenic a lucifer for an idiosyncratic patient.

· Donation is FREE. All travel, meals, and edifice costs for the donor and 1 companion are covered by Be the Match. All aesculapian costs are covered by the patient’s security oregon Be the Match.

To larn much astir Be the Match, you tin sojourn bethematch.org

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