Randomowy

…and read it despite putting it away to marinate? I can’t wait TT

I first read it in high school, I came back for the pain cause it’s such a good story but now that I’m studying medicine I’ve realized something: this whole drama about the bone marrow transplantation is just plain stupid ╥﹏╥

1. Donating bone marrow is more like donating blood than something like a kidney, heart or whatnot. The donor doesn’t have to be dead and the procedure doesn’t affect their quality of life. Sure, it’s hard to find one cause blood only needs to have matching ABO and Rh. With bone marrow it’s much more complicated since You have to find the right HLA match, but it’s not as dramatic as they portray it.
2. One donor can donate bone marrow a few times (around 3, maybe even more depending on their health). So they didn’t have to fight for a donor in the first place, unless the person in question was unwilling to donate more than once. Actually, MCs should have used his money and connections to find that donor (breach of privacy but it’s mahua world) and beg them to donate once more.
3. The time pressure also shouldn’t have been the issue. They first found the donor before the new years eve but as we learn later in the story, the other guy still haven’t received the transplant till around 3 months after because of his poor health condition. The time it takes for your cells to regenerate after donating bone marrow is around 4 weeks (one month). So the donor could have donated the marrow to our MC first and then to the other guy after those two or three months passed (since his situation seemed to be less dire).

With all of that being said: remember that you can register as a bone marrow donor too!!! It takes just a saliva swab. They will keep it for tissue typing and if they find that your marrow is a match with someone, you might be the donor to save someone’s life! It IS hard to find a match so the bigger the database of people willing to save someone’s life, the better chances.