SANTA MARIA, Calif. --
Dignity Health of the Central Coast is hosting a
bone marrow drive hoping to find matches for two local patients.
Connie Hughes of Arroyo Grande
and SRandy Salmon from Nipomo are both in need of bone marrow transplants to
live.
To see if you're a match, you
need a cheek swab and to be between 18 and 44 years old.
Bone marrow patients say it's
difficult to even find a match.
"I had one match out of many
thousands and then that match, unfortunately, fell out of the registry," says
bone marrow patient Connie Hughes. "It means life and death to
us."
Transplants give patients with
leukemia and other blood diseases bone marrow and that increases their chances
of survival.
