This is five month old Conner who is fighting for his life with a rare
disease called Hemophagocytic Lymphohistrocytosis or HLH.
Little Conner has recently been diagnosed with this rare disease and is
currently undergoing chemotherapy at Children's Hospital in Ontario, Canada.
He will receive chemo for six month, at which time we pray the HLH will
go into a remission stage. If remission is established, then little Conner
will need a bone marrow transplant. This is where YOU can help.
Little Conner's family needs people to be tested for donor matches.
This is a simple blood test. A tube of blood is drawn and the proteins (antigens)
in the blood are matched to the patient. It does not have to be a
perfect match to find a donor, but the closer the better.
The information I have researched tells me that if YOU are the match for Conner,
the bone marrow can be collected from where you are and flown to Ontario.
If you wish to find out more about about being tested or about bone marrow
or other transplants, you can call the Division of Bone Marrow and Transplantation of the Health Services and Resources Administration at 301-443-7577.
Or click the link below for the National Donor Marrow Program
YOU CAN HELP THIS CHILD HAVE A CHANCE FOR LIFE
If you want more information or wish to be placed on a list for testing, please
contact Conner's grandmother who is a dear friend of mine, her email address is
conners_grandma@yahoo.com
For more information about HLH see site below
http://www.histio.org/us/lib/hlh-fhl.html
For more information about becoming a donor see link below
National Donor Marrow Program    http://www.marrow.org

If you feel you can not help as a donor, please pass this page along to everyone
you know and please say a prayer for this little boy. His family thanks you for
taking the time to read this, but please help if you can. God bless you.