Saving Henry (2016)
Saving Henry
“The Strongin Goldberg Family We had spent four years raising money for the Fanconi Anemia Research Fund, organizing bone-marrow drives that attracted hundreds of willing donors, and waiting for science to produce better drugs, better treatment protocols, improved bone-marrow-transplant success rates, and gene therapy advances. While our previous searches of the National Bone Marrow Registry initially produced eleven perfect matches to Henry, more in-depth testing showed that, of those, the best... we had was merely one five-out-of-six HLA mismatched, unrelated donor.
In all likelihood, Henry’s donor, like so many others on the registry, had responded to a friend’s or neighbor’s call for help. Ironically, in the early 1990s, long before I was pregnant with Henry, I had heard about a local woman named Allison Atlas and her need for a bone-marrow donor to cure her leukemia. When I went to get tested, a woman came up to me and said that my resemblance to Allison was striking, and that I was sure to be the perfect match.MoreLess
In all likelihood, Henry’s donor, like so many others on the registry, had responded to a friend’s or neighbor’s call for help. Ironically, in the early 1990s, long before I was pregnant with Henry, I had heard about a local woman named Allison Atlas and her need for a bone-marrow donor to cure her leukemia. When I went to get tested, a woman came up to me and said that my resemblance to Allison was striking, and that I was sure to be the perfect match.MoreLess
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