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Article: Bone Marrow Donation; Dying man's plight highlights need for more Black donors
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- Baltimore Afro-American
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- April 22, 2005
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Sparks, Leonard
Baltimore Afro-American
04-22-2005
This is another in a series to shed light on organ, tissue and bone marrow
donation, little discussed and even less understood, an important solution
to the many health issues plaguing the Black community.
Ron Rose feels cheated.
The days and hours he used to spend beating his body into maximum health --
biking, mountain climbing and hitting the gym five days a week -- are now
spent dying.
A year after increasing fatigue drove Rose, then living in Seattle, to the
University of Washington Medical Center for a biopsy, the man who was once
a self-described "physical specimen" now spends 10- to 12-hour days at the
hospital twice each week and must ...