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From Quebec to Utah:
Please help Eileen get a bone marrow transplant
Eileen Simmons in Idaho needs a bone marrow transplant to save her life, and the only possible donor is her brother, John Mackley, in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. My name is Rachel Garber and I am asking your help so John can make the trip to Eileen’s hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah, to give the donation.
For many years, John has been a full-time caregiver to his partner, Anna May Kinney, who has advanced cancer. It is urgent that he goes NOW to Eileen’s hospital in Salt Lake City to give the bone marrow donation while Anna May is in hospital, and before her condition worsens.
Eileen’s daughter Janet explains that Eileen “has myelofibrosis which is a very rare form of bone marrow cancer in which the marrow turns to scar tissue.” Her medical team has tried different strategies, but, Janet writes, “she has had bad reactions to blood products and to her chemotherapy so it is no longer worth the risk, and her only real hope is the bone marrow transplant.”
She wrote to John, “You are her only real chance of recovering from this before it becomes acute leukemia which would only give her a few months to live. I appreciate your willingness to donate since it can save her life and improve her quality of life. Right now she currently suffers from excruciating pain in the bones, fatigue, anemia, enlargement of her spleen, and several other issues.”
John is caught between caring for his partner and his sister, and urgently needs help to finance his trip to Eileen’s hospital in Salt Lake City. He has a place to stay when he gets there, but needs help for his airfare ($850), cell phone ($300), passport (extra cost for urgent delivery, $285), plus meals, transportation to-and-from airports and hospital and the thousand other arrangements to enable him to go to Salt Lake City while still remaining in close touch with Anna May and her hospital in Quebec.
The estimated total cost is $2,000.
Can you please help?
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