Another level of involvement

Today I made a leap in terms of the involvement with the leukemia community.   I have been pondering about this idea for a while and I finally made the initial step today.

I often hear the lack of presence of Asian population in bone marrow registry.  I myself have been registered even before Lucas's diagnosis and it was such an easy process.   I hear a few stories of dying Asian Americans waiting desperately for a marrow match.  Watched some Youtube videos begging people go get registered -- very sad stories.

I'm having my fingers crossed that Lucas will stay in remission with chemotherapy.  But I am the kind of person who likes to act when there's work to be done.

So today is the day!  I got support from two wonderful community leaders within my company.  I made a call to www.asianmarrow.org to get educated on how to run a donor registry drive.  We have an action plan for May the Asian heritage month.  I want to educate the local community.  Numbers will grow one by one, day by day.

Two things planned:
(1) Lunch and Learn session at work
(2) Setting a table/booth in Asian Festival during memorial weekend

One common goal - get more Asians registered in bethematch!

Lots of work to be done in terms of logistics.  But it will be a great learning experience for me.  Hopefully I will get to do this for an ongoing basis.

Thank you so much for the support, my friends!