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Hacker News was incredibly kind to me two years ago when I was diagnosed with Leukemia (AML). Many friends' posts made it to the front page here:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3083770

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3149337

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3297091

After about a hundred days of friends registering & campaigning, chemo, drives, press appearances, Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr posts, I found a donor:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3482119

HN played a huge part in making that happen. I want to say thanks not just for me, but for all the others that gotten helped through our efforts in the past two years alone.

Reminder: It's easy to register, and easy to save someone:

- http://bethematch.org/Support-the-Cause/Donate-bone-marrow/J...

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Awesome, be neat to know how many lives were saved this way overall! I also registered because of you!

I still have this great idea that NBMR/marrow.org should partner with 23andme.com, but I didn't get anywhere trying to contact someone at marrow.org about it (though I wrote you to ask for your contact there and sent an email, thanks for quick reply!). Still think it could be awesome and save a ton more lives (gist of the idea was they both need to run DNA sequencing, and 23andme could offer a discount or something to anyone who also agrees to register for marrow donors list), but someone told me the sequencing needs may be different for each of their needs, and perhaps they already considered the idea themselves... but in case you know anyone else to talk to about it, would be awesome to get more people off the sidelines with a small 'bribe' :-)

Thanks so much for registering!

Agreed it'd be awesome to get them working together. Anne Wojcicki had reached out and I had a call with her and a couple other folks at 23andme during my 100 days isolation period after the transplant.

They seemed interested, I'm not sure how far it got. I'm guessing privacy issues/conflicting priorities got in the way, but I'll drop her a line to see if they're still thinking about it.

Amit, great to see you're doing well. Your drive made me register as well, and I'm hoping to help someone someday.

Thank you for being so awesome!

Thanks for registering!

Glad to hear you are well Amit! I am registered because of your posts and story.

Thanks, Johnny!

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