As a stem cell transplant survivor since August 2007, I know a good deal about  BE THE MATCH , or The National Marrow Donor Program, a nonprofit organization founded in 1986 and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota that operates the Be The Match Registry of volunteer hematopoietic cell donors and umbilical cord blood units in the United States. Flip②▶ STORIFY ♥ FLIPBOARD ★ BLOGGER ▲ INsync ® ★ SUBSCRIBE ☆Search ALTACITIES  ▶ [ View the story "If the match is to be, 'Be the Match'" on Storify ]                                   NOW ▶ Flip2 ▶ CANswer ♥ WORTH ▶ another microblog created, edited and archived by ALTACITIES ® ▶ http://altacities.com ▶ Flip2 ▶ the SCS * (Social Current See) , including what's up with our 8-year MCL survival journey ▶Content archived on Blogger , Facebook , Flipboard , Google +, Linkedin , ShowYou , Storify , Twitter , YouTube , Amazone Crossing ...

http://goo.gl/IrFxRB Reminder ▶ Tuesday, Dec. 2, TGMA General Session , 6 pm in the Pacific Crest Lodge.  Key topic:  Pending election details and date for Master Association & Cobblestone CC&R changes to correct the EQI misunderstanding. In a post originally shared on MyJournal blog: Since my college days in the late 60s (graduation May 1970), I have routinely been a blood donor on occasions too numerous to count.  Part of that habit was prompted by my career in hospitals which, notably, always are conducting blood drives.  Whenever the bloodmobile would arrive on the hospital campus, the clarion call would sound to round up all donors. Long after that routine had become second nature, at age 59, I found myself on the receiving end of this process.  Most who know me also know that I am an 8-year survivor of rare form of mantle cell lymphoma that required a stem cell transplant at City of Hope in 2007.  Thankful for many things, we are, i...