Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Bone marrow recipient, Emru Townsend, passes away

Back in May, I wrote a post about the importance of registering with the bone marrow registry and being a donor (Bone marrow transplants - would you be a donor?). I followed up this post in June with a good news post, that Emru had been matched with a donor (Great news! Montreal man is matched for bone marrow).


Sadly, now I must post that in the end, the leukemia was too tough and Emru passed away last night, surrounded by his family.


God speed Emru. I only met you briefly, but your story touched many people.


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2 comments:

Terrie Farley Moran said...

Special thanks for link to the sleep article.

Terrie

Marijke Vroomen-Durning said...

You're very welcome!