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- Seymour Johnson next week
is life changing for us.

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No kidding.

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- My name Chad Ballance.

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I'm a recruit for C.W. Bill
Young DOD Marrow Donor Program.

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So what this organization has done

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and continues to do since 1991

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is recruit individuals

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within the Department of Defense

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to assist those that are diagnosed

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with one of 51 fatal blood diseases,

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and what we do is we do matching

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to try to save the lives of those

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with those fatal diseases.

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In the United States,
approximately twelve to

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fourteen thousand
individuals are diagnosed

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with a fatal blood disease.

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Typically what we're dealing with

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are things like leukemia,
afas anemias, and lymphomas.

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Of those, thousands will
need potentially to have

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either marrow donations or
preferably stem cell transplant.

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So, in that case obviously, we have a lot

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of individuals who are in absolute need

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to have marrow donation to occur for.

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On average, 14,000 Americans are diagnosed

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every year with these
fatal blood diseases.

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Of that, approximately 500 will be

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Department of Defense members
or their beneficiaries,

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their dependents, their children.

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- We found out April 6, 2014.

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So at that time we were at

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Tripler Army Medical Center in Hawaii,

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and his doctor came in

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and diagnosed him with HIH.

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And that's how they found out

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that he had the disease.

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- Pretty much, what it is is the cells

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in his body react to a virus.

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Let's say a cold virus.

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You got a cold, your
immune system turns on,

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defeats the cold, cold goes away,

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your immune system turns off,

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and you resume, you know,
your day-to-day activities.

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With Blaise, his immune system turns on

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and it never turns off.

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So once the cold goes away,

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the body starts attacking against

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and they end up in multi renal failure

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if not treated.

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- [Doug] It's one of the most
selfless things you can do,

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because you're gonna give somebody

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a second chance at life if you donate.

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- I know it sounds scary.

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I would be terrified too

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if someone told me they
were gonna stick a needle

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in my hip, (laughing)
take out some bone marrow.

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But looking on the other side,

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you're saving someone's
child, someone's parent,

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someone's uncle, someone's daughter.

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- [Doug] The bone marrow program
is honestly the best thing

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that ever could have happened

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because without it, we
wouldn't a son right now.

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