Tumbled Words

**STICKY POST - for a few weeks. If you have read it and been convinced, please scroll down to read my normal banter… if not, I would truly appreciate if you would read this post, ignore me almost forever afterward, but read this one. Thank you.**

There are two ways of helping:

• Just do it
• Find someone else to do it

Obviously the person who does is the hero. Few people will dispute that, I certainly won’t. But those of us who can’t do it for one reason or the other, valid or not, CAN make a difference. We can use our strengths, and heck, our weaknesses, to help FIND THE DOER because:

• They may not know they are needed.
• They may not realize they can do it.
• They may not know how to begin.
• They may just need that little bit of encouragement of a swift kick in the posterior.

OK, that is settled then. I am not the doer in this case, “reasons valid or not”. I am just one of the many “Find the Doer” people. So, let’s begin with pretend - if need be. Substitute I am in each sentence if at all possible.

• Pretend you are relatively healthy.
• Pretend you have someone to hold you if you faint from needles.
• Pretend you WILL take a little bit of time off to go get a simple test done. (OK. Here you may have to PRETEND you can stand up to your perhaps inconsiderate, loser boss or a spouse or boy/girl friend who should have been kicked to the curb a long time ago for trying to control you, but you can do it.)
• Now don’t you DARE pretend like nothing can EVER go wrong in your life causing you to need help… You may not EVER ask for it, but don’t try to con us into believing NOTHING EVER goes wrong or will. (OOPs, I got carried away… think I was giving myself a pep talk or something.)
• (Sorry, I am back in control now.) Pretend like you are going to pick up the phone and make an appointment to have your bone marrow tested. Pretend that since there is safety in numbers and misery loves company you will con, I mean, convince, someone else into going with you.
• Now, pretend like you went, you were a match, and you made a difference — a HUGE difference: bigger than a Dagwood sandwich balanced on the flagpole of the world’s tallest ship floating on the tip of the Eiffel Tower on top of the Empire State Building balanced on the Chrysler building on a sturdy bed created by all the steel cans Popeye’s spinach came in that he ate for fifty years or more (Hold it, I had to stop for a breath…OK, back to it.)… ALL BALANCED on a raft sitting in a lake made of all the tears shed by all the parents of someone waiting for a bone marrow transplant…. And where is that lake? On top of a glacier of cold or scared hearts taller than the sea.

Now, didn’t you feel all warm inside with your pretend results? (No, you can’t answer that with a “no!”) Now, go make that pretend real.

In the United States : National Marrow Donor Program
Read here about a simple swab test that was to roll out in British Columbia, Canada in November last year!

You may find this site interesting: Bone Marrow Donors Worldwide (BMDW), whose “participants are 59 stem cell donor registries from 43 countries, and 38 cord blood banks from 23 countries.”

Now, Mr. T, also known quite rightly as the Young Warrior, is going to need a Bone Marrow Donor — and he is so far from being alone. No match found yet. Now you can stop by Matty’s site and add your prayers, energy, thoughts to the Universe, et al…. but you know what, maybe you could also click on one of those links and become, hopefully a Doer, but if not, at least become a “Find the Doer” and spread the word, because the real Doer may just not know to stand up and be accounted for.

Thank you for your time.

-Marcia.

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