Sometimes it seems that storage bloggers do nothing but bicker. But this week, competitive differences were all set aside as everyone pulled together to help save a man’s life.
As EMCers Chuck Hollis and Storagezilla have both posted, an EMC employee based in their Pleasanton, California office is in need of an emergency bone marrow transplant. With lightning speed, this story has made its way across Twitter and, we hope, into the living room of someone who can help him.
Update as of 5/21 – there is now a blog that consolidates the effort, at: http://markfredrickson.wordpress.com/.
As Chuck explains:
“Nick Glasgow, of our Renewals team in Pleasanton, needs a bone marrow transplant. Nick was a healthy 27 year old when he came down with what was at first believed to be strep throat about nine to ten weeks ago. Eight weeks ago, he was informed that he has Leukemia and was admitted to the hospital immediately for chemotherapy. Nick has endured two rounds of chemotherapy, and received blood, platelet, saline, and antibiotic infusions. These have all failed to put Nick into remission. Nick’s white cell blood count is too low for another round of chemo, and has been sent home as antibiotics have been stopped and his immune system is compromised … The doctors have advised that they think it is highly unlikely that they can find a match for Nick as a match would need to be 3/4 Caucasian and 1/4 Asian.”
What the doctors don’t know is that we’re using the power of social media to get the word out far and wide. Let’s make sure this works. If you or someone you know could be a match for Nick, please consider going to: http://www.marrow.org/ and finding out how to make a donation.
Thanks for that link/post Christopher. I have joined the Facebook group and I hope others do as well. This is clearly a race against the clock.
–Sunshine