Basically the swab kit is used to perform a simple cheek swab in collecting a tissue sample for analysis. The odds of being a match to a patience is 1 out of 20,000. So basically, if someone comes up as a match, very likely he/she could be the only person who can save the patient. Which I beliave is a good karma because what goes around comes around.
So, basically the cheek swabing tools includes two cotton swabs and their holder which look like this: 
What I did was swabing the inside of my cheek rolling up and down exerting enough pressure to make the cheek bulge out while keeping my mouth open and repeated for another side.
The swab kit includes a return envelope for the DNA samples to mail back to them.
And tadaaaaa! I am all set for the first step! Why am I doing this? Well as I said, what goes around comes around.. I believe everyone would want to do a good cause but how many of us are actually taking action to do something?
I don't do cash donation because I don't believe that 100% of the money would actually reach the needy ones. But when it comes to life and death, people wouldn't cheat your blood or bone marrow for that matter.
Do visit www.bmdp.org if you wish to sign up as a bone marrow donor as well.
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