October 28, 2004

Bone Marrow Donor Drive at Kettering University

B-Section students at Kettering University, in Flint Michigan, have organized a Bone Marrow Testing and Registration Drive, to be held November 3rd (5th Wednesday) from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm in BJ's Lounge.

Prospective donors are asked to sign up in the Great Court October 29 (4th Friday), November 1st (5th Monday) and November 2nd (5th Tuesday) at lunch time.

Drop-ins are welcome on Wednesday, but space is limited to the first 200 people.

Posted by bmt4cathy at 06:18 PM | Comments (6)

October 22, 2004

Corriere Canadese

Corriere Canadese has published Cathy's story in Italian. Our thanks go out once again to Tandem News reporter mark Cirillo for a very well written and complete account of our situation.

Additional Information about Leukemia and Bone Marrow Transplants can be found on the Registro Italiano Donatori Midollo Osseo website.

Posted by bmt4cathy at 11:47 AM | Comments (0)

October 20, 2004

A Busy Day

First, Our story was published in the Waterloo Chronicle, a local community paper, this morning.

Second, we went to Toronto and Cathy was on TV. Mario Salvagio (cousin Jenny's husband) went on the air with Cathy to help explain the situation in Italian. The host Vito Caressa was very good and made Cathy and Mario feel quite comfortable during the interview.

Third, as we were leaving the studio, a guy walked by carrying several copies of Corriere Canadese. I said to Vito that I wanted to get a copy today, and was about to ask him where to buy one, when he called the guy (Enzo) and grabbed one for me. Later when we were sitting in the waiting area at Princess Margaret Hospital, I pulled out the paper and started looking at it. Of course, everything is in Italian......so I flipped the paper over and opened the back page, and just about fell off my chair. There was a great big picture of Cathy looking at me. The story written by the Tandem News reporter, Mark Cirillo, pretty much covered the whole back of the paper. I found a link to the story on the Corriere Canadese website (but no pictures).

Fourth, we had a very nice dinner at Tucker's, a restaurant in Toronto. A pretty amazing buffet. We may have to skip breakfast.

All in all, a very busy day.

Posted by bmt4cathy at 11:38 AM | Comments (1)

October 14, 2004

Tandem News Picks Up Cathy's Story

Tandem News, an affiliate of Corriere Canadese, has published Cathy's story. It is online now at www.tandemnews.com. Tandem reporter Mark Cirillo was in contact with us for the past week researching the story and did an excellent job. He has taken a very complex situation and presented it in a very straight forward manner.

Cathy and I would like to thank Mark and Tandem News for their support in reaching out to the Italian Community in and around Toronto.

Posted by bmt4cathy at 11:55 PM | Comments (0)

October 06, 2004

Cathy's Story is Front Page News

The Record, our local newspaper, has published Cathy's story as Front Page News. The story is continued on Page Two. Friends of ours sent a personal message to a contact at the paper informing them of our situation. We received word last week that they "might" be interested in doing a short article and would let us know.

Record reporter Carol Goodwin and photographer Mathew McCarthy visited Cathy in the hospital on Monday to get the details. It wasn't until the interview was finished that we found out that the story was slated to run on the front page. With a circulation of 70,000 and a coverage area that includes Waterloo Region, east to guelph, north past Hanover, and west to Lake Huron, we were overjoyed to know that so many people would be made aware of our situation and the need for Bone Marrow Donors in general.

Posted by bmt4cathy at 08:48 PM | Comments (6)