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Can You Help Charlie?

I’ve had an email from Phoenix FM listener Jenny Charles who was writing about a subject very close to her heart, her other half Charlie.

Charlie and Jenny

Jenny wrote –
“13 years ago Charlie was diagnosed with a blood cancer, it couldn’t be cured only managed by chemotherapy tablets. The impact over the years of the drugs has caused him intense fatigue and bone ache that he has learned to live with, and also gave him lung problems, now classified as COPD.

Over a period of two years he began to decline, sleeping the entire weekend to get enough energy to go to work. In October 2017 we were told that his condition had migrated to Acute Myeloid Leukaemia, there was less than a 4% chance of it happening and it did.

He has had 4 lots of chemo, been very very ill at times, and we almost lost him 3 weeks ago but he fights on ready to face the next lot of chemo in a week’s time. He had to miss last month’s chemo and we know that the leukaemia is coming back aggressively.

His only chance of survival is from a stem cell donation.

Every 20 minutes someone is diagnosed with blood cancer in the UK, around 2,000 of those per year are searching for a stem cell donor, many of them die waiting. What I didn’t realise until Charlie needed it is how simple it is to save someone’s life just by donating your stem cells.

I always thought it was a painful process but it’s not, initially it’s just a swab, like a cotton bud, that you wipe inside your mouth. You send it off and you are on the international register. If you are a match for someone, you will be asked to have a blood test. If you still match and they ask you to be a donor, you will have an injection for a few days to encourage your body to make more cells.

You will then go to the hospital and they take blood out of your arm, you are there for a couple of hours and that’s it, done! You have potentially saved someone’s life. You may feel a bit tired for a few days after as your body replaces your cells but that’s about it. Easy isn’t it.

Last week I met the mother of a 12 year old afro Caribbean boy, I also read about a little white boy aged 6 called Marley, they both need donors. Last week a 25 year old white man died because he didn’t have a donor. I tell you this because whether you are white, black, or one of the many shades in between we desperately need you to be a lifesaver.

We are working with the Afro Caribbean Leukaemia Trust, DKMS and Anthony Nolan … they are all just waiting for you to sign up online or give them a call. The age range to register is 16–55.”

Well thank you Jenny for emailing Phoenix FM. Of course we all wish both you and Charlie the very best and hope that Charlie gets the stem cell donation he so badly needs, very soon.

If you would like to become a Stem Cell Donor you can call the African-Caribbean Leukaemia Trust on 020 3757 7700
Or register online here

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Can You Help Charlie?

I’ve had an email from Phoenix FM listener Jenny Charles who was writing about a subject very close to her heart, her other half Charlie.

Charlie and Jenny

Jenny wrote –
“13 years ago Charlie was diagnosed with a blood cancer, it couldn’t be cured only managed by chemotherapy tablets. The impact over the years of the drugs has caused him intense fatigue and bone ache that he has learned to live with, and also gave him lung problems, now classified as COPD.

Over a period of two years he began to decline, sleeping the entire weekend to get enough energy to go to work. In October 2017 we were told that his condition had migrated to Acute Myeloid Leukaemia, there was less than a 4% chance of it happening and it did.

He has had 4 lots of chemo, been very very ill at times, and we almost lost him 3 weeks ago but he fights on ready to face the next lot of chemo in a week’s time. He had to miss last month’s chemo and we know that the leukaemia is coming back aggressively.

His only chance of survival is from a stem cell donation.

Every 20 minutes someone is diagnosed with blood cancer in the UK, around 2,000 of those per year are searching for a stem cell donor, many of them die waiting. What I didn’t realise until Charlie needed it is how simple it is to save someone’s life just by donating your stem cells.

I always thought it was a painful process but it’s not, initially it’s just a swab, like a cotton bud, that you wipe inside your mouth. You send it off and you are on the international register. If you are a match for someone, you will be asked to have a blood test. If you still match and they ask you to be a donor, you will have an injection for a few days to encourage your body to make more cells.

You will then go to the hospital and they take blood out of your arm, you are there for a couple of hours and that’s it, done! You have potentially saved someone’s life. You may feel a bit tired for a few days after as your body replaces your cells but that’s about it. Easy isn’t it.

Last week I met the mother of a 12 year old afro Caribbean boy, I also read about a little white boy aged 6 called Marley, they both need donors. Last week a 25 year old white man died because he didn’t have a donor. I tell you this because whether you are white, black, or one of the many shades in between we desperately need you to be a lifesaver.

We are working with the Afro Caribbean Leukaemia Trust, DKMS and Anthony Nolan … they are all just waiting for you to sign up online or give them a call. The age range to register is 16–55.”

Well thank you Jenny for emailing Phoenix FM. Of course we all wish both you and Charlie the very best and hope that Charlie gets the stem cell donation he so badly needs, very soon.

If you would like to become a Stem Cell Donor you can call the African-Caribbean Leukaemia Trust on 020 3757 7700
Or register online here

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Can You Help Charlie?

I’ve had an email from Phoenix FM listener Jenny Charles who was writing about a subject very close to her heart, her other half Charlie.

Charlie and Jenny

Jenny wrote –
“13 years ago Charlie was diagnosed with a blood cancer, it couldn’t be cured only managed by chemotherapy tablets. The impact over the years of the drugs has caused him intense fatigue and bone ache that he has learned to live with, and also gave him lung problems, now classified as COPD.

Over a period of two years he began to decline, sleeping the entire weekend to get enough energy to go to work. In October 2017 we were told that his condition had migrated to Acute Myeloid Leukaemia, there was less than a 4% chance of it happening and it did.

He has had 4 lots of chemo, been very very ill at times, and we almost lost him 3 weeks ago but he fights on ready to face the next lot of chemo in a week’s time. He had to miss last month’s chemo and we know that the leukaemia is coming back aggressively.

His only chance of survival is from a stem cell donation.

Every 20 minutes someone is diagnosed with blood cancer in the UK, around 2,000 of those per year are searching for a stem cell donor, many of them die waiting. What I didn’t realise until Charlie needed it is how simple it is to save someone’s life just by donating your stem cells.

I always thought it was a painful process but it’s not, initially it’s just a swab, like a cotton bud, that you wipe inside your mouth. You send it off and you are on the international register. If you are a match for someone, you will be asked to have a blood test. If you still match and they ask you to be a donor, you will have an injection for a few days to encourage your body to make more cells.

You will then go to the hospital and they take blood out of your arm, you are there for a couple of hours and that’s it, done! You have potentially saved someone’s life. You may feel a bit tired for a few days after as your body replaces your cells but that’s about it. Easy isn’t it.

Last week I met the mother of a 12 year old afro Caribbean boy, I also read about a little white boy aged 6 called Marley, they both need donors. Last week a 25 year old white man died because he didn’t have a donor. I tell you this because whether you are white, black, or one of the many shades in between we desperately need you to be a lifesaver.

We are working with the Afro Caribbean Leukaemia Trust, DKMS and Anthony Nolan … they are all just waiting for you to sign up online or give them a call. The age range to register is 16–55.”

Well thank you Jenny for emailing Phoenix FM. Of course we all wish both you and Charlie the very best and hope that Charlie gets the stem cell donation he so badly needs, very soon.

If you would like to become a Stem Cell Donor you can call the African-Caribbean Leukaemia Trust on 020 3757 7700
Or register online here

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Can You Help Charlie?

I’ve had an email from Phoenix FM listener Jenny Charles who was writing about a subject very close to her heart, her other half Charlie.

Charlie and Jenny

Jenny wrote –
“13 years ago Charlie was diagnosed with a blood cancer, it couldn’t be cured only managed by chemotherapy tablets. The impact over the years of the drugs has caused him intense fatigue and bone ache that he has learned to live with, and also gave him lung problems, now classified as COPD.

Over a period of two years he began to decline, sleeping the entire weekend to get enough energy to go to work. In October 2017 we were told that his condition had migrated to Acute Myeloid Leukaemia, there was less than a 4% chance of it happening and it did.

He has had 4 lots of chemo, been very very ill at times, and we almost lost him 3 weeks ago but he fights on ready to face the next lot of chemo in a week’s time. He had to miss last month’s chemo and we know that the leukaemia is coming back aggressively.

His only chance of survival is from a stem cell donation.

Every 20 minutes someone is diagnosed with blood cancer in the UK, around 2,000 of those per year are searching for a stem cell donor, many of them die waiting. What I didn’t realise until Charlie needed it is how simple it is to save someone’s life just by donating your stem cells.

I always thought it was a painful process but it’s not, initially it’s just a swab, like a cotton bud, that you wipe inside your mouth. You send it off and you are on the international register. If you are a match for someone, you will be asked to have a blood test. If you still match and they ask you to be a donor, you will have an injection for a few days to encourage your body to make more cells.

You will then go to the hospital and they take blood out of your arm, you are there for a couple of hours and that’s it, done! You have potentially saved someone’s life. You may feel a bit tired for a few days after as your body replaces your cells but that’s about it. Easy isn’t it.

Last week I met the mother of a 12 year old afro Caribbean boy, I also read about a little white boy aged 6 called Marley, they both need donors. Last week a 25 year old white man died because he didn’t have a donor. I tell you this because whether you are white, black, or one of the many shades in between we desperately need you to be a lifesaver.

We are working with the Afro Caribbean Leukaemia Trust, DKMS and Anthony Nolan … they are all just waiting for you to sign up online or give them a call. The age range to register is 16–55.”

Well thank you Jenny for emailing Phoenix FM. Of course we all wish both you and Charlie the very best and hope that Charlie gets the stem cell donation he so badly needs, very soon.

If you would like to become a Stem Cell Donor you can call the African-Caribbean Leukaemia Trust on 020 3757 7700
Or register online here

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