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9:00AM | posted by Shelley Ng | July 16, 2010 | comments: 11
Get Swabbed, Save A Life

Stop by PIX Plaza (42nd Street & 2nd Avenue) today, July 16 from 6am to 9am for bone marrow drive to help Shannon, 11; Esther, 12; and Sofia, 11-months-old, find a much-needed donor.
All you have to do is get your cheek swabbed, and you could help save a life.
Stars of "The Lion King" and "Billy Elliot" as well as WBLS will also be there to help out.
For more information, visit www.matchshannon.com, www.getswabbed.org and www.dkms.org.
CLICK HERE TO REQUEST A SWAB KIT.
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Comments: 11
I will be out of town this Friday. However, I would like to send in a "swab", for analysis.
My address is:
Raymond Barron
78-56 78th St.
Glendale, N.Y. 11385
tel: 917-612-4674
How can I send a swab via mail? I would love to be able to go down to Pix Plaza but I am working and I live in suffolk county..
My address is
54 Brightside Avenue
Central Islip, NY 11722
Send me a swab 29c flannery ave poughkeepsie ny 12601
I did not see were I could register to send in a swab. Please assist me. Thank you
My address is
Margarita Abreu
41 Western Avenue
Jersey City, NJ 07307
Tel:201-543-9024
I would like to receive a swab kit in the mail. My information is:
Stephanie Johnson
164-25 109th Road, Apt. 2
Jamaica, NY 11433
(718) 749-1053
SWABBING SHOULD BE FOR ALL CHILDREN THAT NEED BONE MARROW NOT JUST ONE PRIVILEGE KID. WHEN MY DAUGHTER NEEDED BONE MARROW WE DIDNT PARADE HER AROUND BEGGING FOR HELP. IM SORRY MY DAUGHTER WASNT IN A BROADWAY PLAY.
i would like the mail in my swab.. please mail it to me...and one for each of my 3 children.
jossie dejesus
673 catherine st.
perth amboy, nj 08861
alius aldahondo age 4
same address
alijah aldahondo age 3
same address
aiden gonzalez age 1
same address
and my boyfriend
jonathan
same address
You can request a cheek swab kit be mailed to your home at https://www.dkmsamericas.org/bone-marrow-donors/become-marrow-donor.
TO ANYONE WHO WANTS TO HELP AND LIVES IN LONG ISLAND (SUFFOLK COUNTY)
There will be a DKMS BONE MARROW DRIVE in Port Jefferson, NY on
Sunday, July 25, 2010
10am-5pm
Infant Jesus Church (Parish Center)
110 Myrtle Ave.
Port Jefferson, NY 11777
This drive will be to try to help Shannon as well as anyone else in need of a bone marrow transplant!
Thanks! :-)
Dear Joseph-
So sorry to hear about your daughter. You may not be aware, but anyone that registers goes into a national databank for all people young and old who need a transplant. You only receive a transplant if there is a match, not if you are privileged. Hopefully, your daughter will benefit from Shannon's notariety that has caused a lot of awareness, as well as many others. Tell your family and friends to go to getswabbed.com to register on line so we can save lives!!
God Bless you and your family!
- a registered bone marrow donor and friend of Shannon
It is great that you are doing this call. It is unfortunate though that there are so many other children and adults, who are in a Broadway show, or they are not famous...whose voice is not heard but they need help as well. It is very fair to do it for just one child. Hope that all these swabs are use to help donate bone marrow to other people in need, and not just for this one child.
Because of your potential in spreading the word, and getting such positive response, why don't you do this type of calls for other things like: organ transplants: libber, heart, etc... And other things?
I watch you every morning, I love your show and I applauded what you do, but don't cut it short and open it to many other possibilities of things that you can do and achieve, you can!!!