Like most four-and-a-half year olds Jayden Roll colors and plays with her friends, however in February she was diagnosed with a life-threatening blood disease, leaving her family scrambling to find a bone marrow donor.
The Roll family is now turning to the public for help.
In February, her parents noticed something was wrong.
She was diagnosed with a rare blood disease, Myelodysplastic Syndrome or MDS. Her doctors predict that it will most likely progress into acute myelogenos leukemia, or AML, at which point she will need to undergo chemotherapy and, ultimately, depend on a marrow transplant to survive, said Rabbi Menachem Posner, a friend of the family.
Her bone marrow was failing and now she is in desperate need of a transplant. No one in her family is a match, including her younger brothers.
She needs blood transfusions every two weeks to stay alive.
In order for Jayden to survive, a stem cell donor must be found in the coming weeks. Currently, she has no match in the Bone Marrow Registry. Her best chance at finding a match is within the ashkenzi Jewish population. The family is reaching far and wide to try to find her a match.
Her name for Tehillim is: Gita bat Sheva
“The Gift of Life” foundation will operate a drive next week at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattn to try to find her a match.
Information for the drive:
When: Monday April 22, 2013 from 4pm-8pm
Where: 92nd street Y
Address:
1395 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY, 10128
Phone Number: 212.415.5500
(YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
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what is the name for tehilim?
Please give us the child’s name and please let us split up the sefer Tehillim in the zechut that she finds a doner very quickly I’YH.
if you would have a drive in brooklyn, you would have many more people come, lots of people cant go to manhatten
Refuah Shleima Bekorev
A group of frum Brooklyn College students are hosting a bone marrow drive on Tuesday April 30th from 12:00 to 8:00PM in front of Boylan Hall. The drive is open and free of charge to all. Please help this girl and so many in our community like her who are desperately waiting for a suitable match, and join the national bone marrow registry. For more information https://www.facebook.com/BcSwabsForKids
Bcgift thanks just want to correct you. The fb page says Apr 23.
can a drive be arranged upstate?
Thank you 2qwerty for your interest. The drive was originally scheduled for April 23rd it was switched to April 30th. See http://bitly.com/bcswabsforkids.
The FB administrator is out of town for the weekend, it will be corrected as soon as possible. Please help spread the word.