So I am constantly on the web. I am a blogger I live here. So you can only imagine my surprise when I read about this. What will they think of next? Now am I the only one that sees this as a non issue?

• You can make money from blood donation. (About 20 bucks per donation, but who is counting.)

• You can make money from egg donation. ($3,500 – $5,000 per egg donation cycle. Don’t ask how I know this.)

• and if you would like to donate sperm you can make 75 to 100 dollars per donation. (It’s public information people.)

To my point. What is all of the hub bub about Bone Marrow Donations? If there is a person who is suffering from an illness that would benefit from a bone marrow donor why not let someone pay a donor for their healthy bone marrow?

Why should I even be paying any attention to this? Well because this affects you! The most needed of all of the bone marrow donors are minority bone marrow donors. As a matter of fact Moremarrowdonors.org is pushing for the ability to pay minority bone marrow donors 3,000 dollars for a donation of healthy bone marrow. Moremarrowdonors.org!! Hey I have two words for you CALL ME!!

But Seriously, listen to this! With their plan Donors and patients would be matched anonymously through a national registry and we could really help folks who are in need of something that regenerates fairly quickly.

Here is a list of the diseases bone marrow transplants have been know to help!

Bone Marrow Stem Cells Have Been Shown to Help:

1. ALS [Lou Gehrig’s, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis]
2. Alzheimer’s
3. Anemia, Beta-Thalassemia, Sickle-Cell Anemia, Hemoglobinopathies
4. Angina
5. Arthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Gout, Tendonitis
6. Autoimmune Diseases: Scleroderma, Multiple Sclerosis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
7. Back Pain
8. Bone Repair, Cartilage Repair, Tendon Repair, Arthroplasty, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Mandibular Repair
9. Brain Ischemia, Stroke
10. Breast Cancer, Metastatic Breast Cancer
11. Burns
12. Cancer [Solid], Cancer [Hematological], Multiple Myeloma, Myelogenous Leukemia, Brain Tumor, Bone Cancer, Lung Cancer, Conjunctival, Cancer Pain, Repair After Surgery
13. Chronic Granuloniatous Disease [CGD]
14. Cleft Palate
15. Cystic Fibrosis
16. Diabetes [Chronic, Non-Healing Wounds], Diabetes Mellitus
17. Degenerative Disc Disease
18. Eyes, Cornea, Ocular Surface Diseases, Ocular Surface Reconstruction, Conjunctiva, Limbal Epithelium
19. Fetal Disease [In-Utero Stem Cell Transplantation]
20. Heart Disease, Heart Failure, Congestive Heart Failure, Myocardial Perfusion, Ventricular Function, Cardiovascular Disease [Pediatrics], Cardiomyopathy [Severe Ischemic], Myocardial Infarction, Postinfarct Aneurysm
21. Hernia Repair
22. HIV
23. Huntington’s Disease
24. Knee Repair
25. Leukapheresis
26. Leukemia [Acute Myeloid, Chronic Myelogenous, AML]
27. Liver, Hepatitis, Cirrhosis
28. Lupus, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Severe Lupus
29. Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin’s
30. Metabolic Syndrome
31. Multiple Sclerosis
32. Muscle Repair
33. Muscular Dystrophy [Duchenne], Faciosc apulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy
34. Myelodysplastic Syndrome
35. Neuroblastoma
36. Neurometabolic Diseases
37. Nervous System Repair, Peripheral Nerve Regeneration
38. Organ Failure, Organ Repair, AL Amyloidosis
39. Osteoporosis
40. PAOD, Peripheral Arterial Occlusion Disease
41. Parkinson’s
42. Pediatric Non-Promyelocytic AML
43. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Tissue Repair in General
44. POEMS Syndrome
45. Radiation-Induced Damage
46. Rhinoplasty
47. Salivary Gland Repair
48. Sarcoma
49. Scleroderma, Systemic Sclerosis, Cutaneous Systemic Sclerosis, Scleromyxedema
50. Sjogren’s Syndrome
51. Skeletal System Repair
52. Skin and Skin Wounds
53. Soft Palate Repair
54. Spinal Cord Injury
55. Teeth
56. Urology
57. Wound Healing

So why not allow patients to pay donors to donate bone marrow? I think that it is because the proverbial they have not figured out a way to make money from it yet, but hey I am a conspiracy theorists. Then again, aren’t most black folks?

R. Smith

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