The young Formentera Adriana Segovia overflowed with happiness in yesterday’s pages of this newspaper. He expressed his great joy to learn that his bone marrow donation has ended up saving the life of a patient with leukemia on the other side of the world. For Adriana it was already a great satisfaction to donate stem cells a year ago, but it has been much more so to be able to celebrate the success achieved by science. To this we must add that Adriana has just become a mother, with what undoubtedly feels like a source of absolute vitality.
After a year and a half of bad news that we carry on our backs, in which every time we talk about medicine it is to cite new cases of coronavirus in addition to thousands of deaths, being able to explain that life makes its way is a real joy. A gesture as simple as donation by apheresis, a kind of blood filtration very similar to dialysis in which the stem cells are extracted separately, has ended up saving a life. It’s formidable! Adriana has not only donated her stem cells, but has also become a champion of this type of donation, insisting in the media and social networks on the importance and simplicity of an act that saves lives. It is much easier than we can imagine, totally painless and you do not need anything more than the willingness to donate and the time that the process lasts. So simple and so fantastic.
The Formentera became a blood donor at age 18 and soon became interested in donating marrow that would have saved the life of her great-grandfather, who died without finding a compatible donor. If you are between the ages of 18 and 40, you have a life in your hands.
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