but anyways, today there was an event for swabbing mouths to see if you're a stem cell match for anyone in need. Apparently there are currently 994? (or something like that) patients that are in need of a stem cell match in Canada right now. Today we had a "swabbing session" to help find a match for those people. It's crazy cause apparently for chinese people (I'm chinese btw), they only have a 10% chance of finding a match because there aren't as many people that are willing to spend a few minutes to swab their mouths.. apparently they think that there will be a bone marrow transplant.. (which supposedly hurts).. but little do they know that that's only 10% of the time. 90% of the time it's just regular blood withdrawal which is no different than taking a blood test. Well, actually.. it is different because you get the rest of your blood back that has been removed of stem cells. it's pretty cool cause they replenish back in like, a few weeks.
Anyways, today we had skits, musical performances and some stories of current patients and past donors.
lalalaaa yea, I was part of the music team and i had the privilege to sing for the stem cell drive. The first song I sang was "when you believe".. maybe you've heard it before? but apparently it was so well done the first time that people actually requested it to be performed again at the ends of today's program LOOOL! hehe i found that pretty cool.
Anyways, the second song i sang was "you raise me up". Well sung too :) Maybe I'll post the videos up sometime soon LOL
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