(no subject)

[arethinn]

"4. 2006 Classified Senate Blood and Marrow Drive
There was discussion in favor of holding another blood & marrow drive this year, ..."

Med techs, help me out here. How do you have a "Marrow Drive"? I mean, how does one donate bone marrow without serious surgery, such that they can have an on-campus "drive" for it like a blood drive? Or is it just getting your name in some kind of database along with some other kind of sample that might be used to match you up to someone who needed bone marrow?

Comments

[michiexile]

Can't you donate marrow substance by simply having a very painful needle inserted in the short of your back? I know I had my marrow tested at some point by that...

[starlightforest.livejournal.com]

Sounds like what ahril said in her comment, but that sounds to me like a procedure that should be done at least in a doctor's office if not a hospital, and certainly not in the student council chambers, which is why I was asking.

I try to avoid getting very painful needles stuck in me whenever possible. I'm a wimp so I never even donate blood, even though I know I really should.