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Article: Student's bone marrow plea.
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- Diss Express (Diss, England)
- Article date:
- May 23, 2008
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A student who has leukaemia is urging people to help save lives by joining the bone marrow register.
Marjorie Martin, who lives with her boyfriend Scott Smith's family in Dickleburgh, was rushed to hospital by paramedics last month after finding a series of lumps on her arms and legs.
The accountancy student, who came to the UK from Jamaica five years ago, first went to the doctors complaining of constant tiredness and aching joints.
Blood tests showed the 26-year-old had sickle cell anaemia, but when more tests were run after the lumps appeared on her body, Miss Martin was rushed to the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, where she was ...