Community Corner
Are You A Match For This Boy?
A Peninsula family is desperately seeking a Chinese-Caucasian donor for their 4-year-old son, who was recently diagnosed with severe Aplastic anemia.
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Four-year-old Kyle Crawford is, and he was diagnosed with aplastic anemia at Stanford's Lucille Packard Children's Hospital last week, NBC Bay Area has reported. The teachers at his preschool are organizing testing days for members of the public to come to find out if they might be a bone marrow match.
Aplastic anemia is a condition that occurs when your body stops producing enough new blood cells.
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His teachers at Serendipity Preschool in San Mateo contacted NBC Bay Area to spread the word to help find a match. The Asian American Donor Project has set up a page for Kyle to help get out the word and explain the bone marrow donation process.
So far two testing days have been set up in January.
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Date: Saturday January 7th
Time: 11am - 2pm
Location: Serendipity School - 3172 Clearview Way, San Mateo, CA 94402
Date: Saturday January 14th
Time: 12pm - 3pm
Location: Haight Ashbury Free Clinics, 558 Clayton Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
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