Anyone 50% Japanese, (3/8) Chinese and (1/8) Vietnamese?

[ChunJin]

An 8-year old girl with leukemia needs your help.

If so please contact me via PM. This is for Natalie Nakatani who needs a matching bone marrow donor (click this! its a link). She did a DNA test for her ethnicity, and this is what popped out.

She desperately needs a bone marrow donor, or she will die in 3-4 months. This is 100% real, and 100% serious.

Bone marrow transplants require DNA tissue-type matching rather than blood-type matching. (click this! its a link) This makes it very difficult to find a donor.

Need to find someone who is similar makeup of the person. Ethnicity plays an important role. It doesn't have to be exact, but as close as possible. If you know anyone, please ask them! Also, you don't need to be a US Citizen or even in America.

If a moderator could sticky this, or even announce this that would be great.

[ShukakuOTS]

I've heard about her and this is a great idea to post it here and an even better one to sticky it. Sadly, I don't match, but with the large number of Asians here, I hope that there will be someone with matching DNA who is willing to donate and save her life. My prayers are with her.

Mods, please sticky this!

[Mannosuke]

3/8 chinese and 1/8 viet?

I can't imagine how that works. Is it even possible to find someone like that?

[Guest Vivioones]

i read somewhere about a girl with a similar story.

so her parents gave birth to another child who happens to matched hers.

therefore her sister gave her the bone marrow transplant and saved her life.

but 3-4 months is such a short period of time =[.....hope u find someone.

[Guest chewy130]

why is there an entire website dedicated to this one girl? People die and suffer every day..

either way i dont think shes gonna find a donator....if it has to be THAT specific ethnicity, i dont think she will find a donator, and even if she does very few strangers would donate bone marrow for free.. that sht hurts

edit: i saw the video on the website and it looks really well made..how do they have the money for this?

anyways the video says she has a brother, why cant he donate? or have their parents donate?

[ChunJin]

It doesn't have to be the exact makeup, but being close enough helps a lot.

[Guest bonjour tristesse.]

why is there an entire website dedicated to this one girl? People die and suffer every day..

it wouldnt hurt you from trying though, would it?

good luck with the girl and you can always PM a mod from this area of the forums to sticky it. hopefully they will.

[Guest chewy130]

it wouldnt hurt you from trying though, would it?

good luck with the girl and you can always PM a mod from this area of the forums to sticky it. hopefully they will.

but why take a chance?

loll yeh im a richard simmons... a funny richard simmons

[Guest LiIy]

why is there an entire website dedicated to this one girl? People die and suffer every day..

either way i dont think shes gonna find a donator....if it has to be THAT specific ethnicity, i dont think she will find a donator, and even if she does very few strangers would donate bone marrow for free.. that sht hurts

edit: i saw the video on the website and it looks really well made..how do they have the money for this?

anyways the video says she has a brother, why cant he donate? or have their parents donate?

She's cute and the parents are rich.

In all seriousness, I hope she does find a donor, but I doubt it'll happen in time. Even if someone does have that exact racial makeup there's a high chance the bone marrow won't match. It's not even guaranteed that siblings, or relatives in general for that matter, will match.

[Guest Amethist]

Oh dear, that's a mix you don't see everyday . I hope she will find donor! Btw Japanese - Chinese is a more common mix, so I hope that would also be enough for a match.

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[ShukakuOTS]

i'm also wondering why she is so special to have a website dedicated to her for this

tho i do hope that she finds a match because its sad to live such a short life

very rare mix btw

It's possible that her family owns the site, and I'm sure she's very special to them. With the position the family is in, putting up a website to help find a donor is a very good idea.

[Mannosuke]

why is there an entire website dedicated to this one girl? People die and suffer every day..

What's wrong with that? Maybe you can go make websites for the others that die and suffer everyday if you feel this is unfair.

[ShukakuOTS]

I've heard about her and this is a great idea to post it here and an even better one to sticky it. Sadly, I don't match, but with the large number of Asians here, I hope that there will be someone with matching DNA who is willing to donate and save her life. My prayers are with her.

Mods, please sticky this!

Thank you God...prayers answered! According to their blog, they've found a match.

Match Found!

February 24th, 2010

We have great news that a match has been found for Natalie’s transplant! Thank you so much to all of you who have worked so hard for her drives, prayed for us, spent your free time emailing your network of friends to come to the drives, ordered kits to swab your friends, sent in kits, tested, and supported us through the search.

We heard that Natalie’s hometown drive at Gregory Gardens was wonderful and 700 people came from all over the bay area (some from Sacramento)to get tested and registered. Gregory Gardens families and staff, you are all truly amazing people. Thank you so much for pulling the community together and putting so much heart into helping us and so many people in our situation. We know some of you got there at 7am and didn’t leave until 6:00 pm that day.

The Cal drive also went well too. Our friends and volunteers got 200 people tested and registered. We heard that some people actually thought they were donating their marrow that same day and were ready to do that. Wow.

Thank you to everyone who organized and helped with all the other drives as well. If we haven’t mentioned specific information from those drives, it’s just because we haven’t heard the stories yet from those drives. We are sure there are special stories there too. We feel so lucky to have so many people support and carry us through this hard time. We honestly would not be able to do any of this without you all.

We are so happy a match has been found. Yes, the donor is asian. What a special and wonderful gift this person has given our family. It’s one less thing to worry about as we gear up for the transplant, which is now targeted for early April. We need all your prayers that it goes really well without any complications.

For those of you who are still doing drives and getting people registered, please don’t stop. We encourage people to keep getting tested and registered. We really want the registry to grow with more minorities getting tested as we have learned that there is truly a need out there for minorities to get registered.

The immediate need we have now is for prayers that Natalie’s counts go up so she can go home for a couple of days. We were hoping this weekend, but it’s taking longer than we expected. We really want Sean and Natalie to get some time together. As you may know, all hospitals are not allowing children under 16 to come visit due to H1N1(swine flu). They won’t even allow siblings to visit. Sean and Natalie have not seen each other in person for a month. 

http://www.hopefornatalie.com/a/

[Guest _kucha]

i read somewhere about a girl with a similar story.

so her parents gave birth to another child who happens to matched hers.

therefore her sister gave her the bone marrow transplant and saved her life.

but 3-4 months is such a short period of time =[.....hope u find someone.

Ohh yeah i remember something like that... a bit like the movie My Sister's Keeper