My friend Steve Bass sent the following in his weekly newsletter:
I met Emru at CES in 2006 and I recognized him as a kindred spirit. He was funny, sarcastic, snide, and ever so fast with his snipes. He lives in Canada, so I stayed in touch by e-mail and read his blogs. The more we corresponded, the more I liked him.
At CES 2007 we hung around, along with my other snarky PCW buddy, Dan Tynan, and like adolescent geeks, teased and hassled every PR chick that crossed our path. (Oh, like you wouldn’t do the same. Right.)
Last December, Emru said he wasn’t going to January’s CES; then I noticed he was posting his blog only sporadically. It turns out he’s got leukemia and needs a marrow transplant. I’m determined to help spread the word to help him find a match. I’m hoping you’ll help, too.
This from Emru’s blog:
While anyone, anywhere can be a potential match, his best chance for a match comes from a donor who shares his ethnic background. As the son of two African Caribbean parents, his chances are further diminished as blacks are underrepresented in bone marrow registries worldwide.
You can help by registering for your country’s bone marrow registry and spreading the word about the need to diversify its database. Registering can help save not only Emru’s life, but that of one of the many other patients waiting for a bone marrow transplant.
You can help, if only by passing along this missive. Read these two posts for more info on what you can do:
http://blogs.pcworld.com/techlog/archives/006773.html
http://www.healemru.com/index-en.php
Register with the National Marrow Donor Program in the U.S.
http://www.marrow.org/HELP/Join_the_Donor_Registry/Join_Now/join_now.html
–Steve
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