{"id":42712,"date":"2015-09-14T00:40:37","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T00:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42712"},"modified":"2015-09-14T00:40:37","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T00:40:37","slug":"girl-in-need-of-bone-marrow-highlights-shortage-of-mixed-race-donors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42712","title":{"rendered":"Girl in need of bone marrow highlights shortage of mixed-race donors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Girl in need of bone marrow highlights shortage of mixed-race donors<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Chicago Tribune<\/a>
\n2015-09-13<\/p>\n

Vikki Ortiz Healy<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

When doctors told Michelle Trujillo in July that her 6-year-old daughter would need a bone marrow transplant<\/a> to save her life, the Crystal Lake <\/a>mother didn’t want to wait another minute before getting her only child back to health.<\/p>\n

But months later, Sophia \u2014 who has aplastic anemia<\/a>, a rare disorder that impairs her immunity \u2014 is still waiting for a donor match. Meanwhile, Trujillo says she lies in bed at night making mental lists of places to try to find a donor with similar multiracial heritage to her daughter’s \u2014 a group with a strikingly low match rate.<\/p>\n

“I don’t sleep at night. I think of, ‘What can I do now? Who can I contact now?’ ” said Trujillo, whose daughter is half Filipino, as well as Irish, Spanish and Italian. “One match is all we need, but it’s like a needle in a haystack.”<\/p>\n

The Trujillos’ predicament highlights a nationwide paradox that has troubled medical experts and families awaiting transplants for years: despite the ever-growing diversity in the United States, there are not enough minority and multiracial donors registered and available for patients in need…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Girl in need of bone marrow highlights shortage of mixed-race donors The Chicago Tribune 2015-09-13 Vikki Ortiz Healy When doctors told Michelle Trujillo in July that her 6-year-old daughter would need a bone marrow transplant to save her life, the Crystal Lake mother didn’t want to wait another minute before getting her only child back […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2039,8,20],"tags":[2805,5488,21053,21054,11554,21055],"class_list":["post-42712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-chicago-tribune","tag-illinois","tag-michelle-trujillo","tag-sophia-trujillo","tag-the-chicago-tribune","tag-vikki-ortiz-healy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42713,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42712\/revisions\/42713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}