University Park Mom Inspires Pair of Bone-Marrow Drives
A bone-marrow registration drive on behalf of University Park resident Danielle Stephens will run from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday at Saint Michael and All Angels. The drive is the second since Sunday for the mother-of-two, who was recently diagnosed with blood cancer.
Nearly 2,200 donors including Troy Aikman and Daryl Johnston turned out on April 7, says Amy Roseman, a spokeswoman for the Delete Blood Cancer organization. The event also yielded more than $24,000, she added, “of which 100 percent will be put right back into registering more donors.” Registration involves only a cheek swab, if you’re wondering, and it’s simply a hunt for a donor/match who can help Stephens or others on marrow-transplant waiting lists.
Stephens is “too positive to be doubtful,” she said in a press release, “too optimistic to be fearful, and too determined to be defeated.”
