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Aryanna Nagy, a 9-year-old Lindsborg girl, might require a bone marrow transplant before she can get back to being a full-time fourth-grader at Soderstrom Elementary School in Lindsborg.
"She just wants to go to school," said her mom, Jakki Nagy. "She wants to be a normal 9-year-old girl."
It's been a month since McKenzie Haynes, a junior at Salina South High School, had a bone marrow transplant at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., and her mother, Kathleen Haynes, said her recovery is going well.
Both girls suffer from rare but similar blood disorders, and in both cases the best hope for a cure may come from a bone marrow transplant.
That is what makes a bone marrow registry drive being held at Aryanna's school this weekend in Lindsborg so important, members of both families said.
"We're so thankful the school is doing this," Jakki Nagy said of the bone marrow registration being conducted in her daughter's honor. "It's pretty great. I love our community."
Kathleen Haynes said she would also encourage participation.
"Everybody needs to get over and get 'er done," she said. "I would jump in a heartbeat if some child needed my right arm at this point after all these people were so willing to help my daughter. It's an amazing thing."
The drive will be conducted from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the school at 227 N. Washington. If Aryanna feels up to it, she will be there to serve lemonade.
Registration process easy
The procedure is simple, involving a swab taken from the inside of the cheek, which is then sent for DNA analysis and entered into a global donor computer registry. There is no cost to donors, although donations are being accepted to cover the approximately $55 in costs associated with registering each possible donor.
Bone marrow could be used to treat blood cancers, anemias, genetic disorders and other life-threatening ailments.
"Some people have months or years to find a donor, and some have weeks," said Erika Toto, donor recruiter for DKMS, the world's largest bone marrow donor center. "This is a very big-time game for a lot of people.
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Debbie Watson, principal of Soderstrom Elementary, said more than $2000 was contributed in five days during a penny drive conducted to assist the family with medical bills that insurance doesn't cover. A local business provided a $1000 match.
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