{"id":4776,"date":"2018-11-29T14:23:28","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T19:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/?p=4776"},"modified":"2018-11-29T14:27:23","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T19:27:23","slug":"45-years-of-tears-the-bone-marrow-transplant-that-never-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/45-years-of-tears-the-bone-marrow-transplant-that-never-was\/","title":{"rendered":"45 Years of Tears: The Bone Marrow Transplant that Never Was"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cWhere were you 45 years ago when my son needed a bone marrow transplant?\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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At Ezer Mizion\u2019s busy office, the phone does not stop ringing. At times, it is the ubiquitous telemarketing call. Other calls may be requesting information about the bone marrow registry<\/strong>. Some calls can be as brief as several sentences but leave the staff member stunned. Like this one received by Chani :<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere were you 45 years ago? When my son needed a bone marrow transplant<\/strong>? I took my two daughters to be tested at UCLA but they were not a genetic match<\/strong>.\u201d Then her voice faltered, \u201cBefore we could try more people, my son\u2014 my son\u2014- my son died.\u201d Her voice broke but she tried to continue speaking, \u201cWhere were you 45 years ago?! I want to give you a donation. Your organization is so important. \u00a0I only wish it had been in existence 45 years ago. Perhaps he could have received a bone marrow transplant<\/strong>. Perhaps he could have been saved.\u201d She was overcome by tears and hung up the phone.\u00a0\u00a0 The pain of losing a child does not disappear, even after 45 yrs.<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s why Ezer Mizion\u2019s Bone Marrow Registry<\/strong> was founded. For people like this lady\u2019s son. People with Jewish ethnicity\u00a0who need a\u00a0DNA match\u00a0to save their lives. Ezer Mizion\u2019s Bone Marrow Registry<\/strong> receives calls from oncology clinics around the world\u00a0 and has saved over 2900 lives with genetically matching donors from its 900,000 registrants.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhere were you 45 years ago when my son needed a bone marrow transplant?\u201d   At Ezer Mizion\u2019s busy office, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[741,756,762],"class_list":["post-4776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bone-marrow-registry","tag-bone-marrow-registry","tag-bone-marrow-transplant","tag-genetic-match"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4776"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4782,"href":"http:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4776\/revisions\/4782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}