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Bone Marrow Testing Drive Highlights


Our Bone Marrow Donor Testing Drive on June 8th was a great success!  Thanks to all of you who came to be tested and the Moultrie Campus LPN and Medical Assisting students who volunteered as testers throughout the day.  Over 300 people volunteered to be tested at either MTC or CRMC that day, and we were able to accept a total of 205 tissue samples to be sent to the National Bone Marrow Registry program.  If a successful transplant results from our drive at any time in the future, we will be notified by the Registry.  Let’s hope that is the case!

Local Colquitt County resident Carolyn Tallman, a cancer patient who will begin her own bone marrow transplant process in July, attended the drive and motivated the volunteers and potential donors.

Below are links to the local TV news stories that covered the event:

http://www.wctv.tv/home/headlines/7910242.html#
(click on the blue story title next to the red camera icon for video)

http://walb.com/Global/story.asp?S=6632661
(scroll down to bottom of page to small photo of Carolyn Tallman for video access)


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Neali McRae of CRMC, Denise Brooks of MTC, Carolyn Tallman, and Jana Wiggins of MTC make plans for the Bone Marrow Testing Drive.

Left to right, LPN student Lisa Crosby, Carolyn Tallman, and LPN students Nicole Lanier and Pat Saunders help potential donors at the drive at MTC.
   
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Denise Brooks of MTC, Carolyn Tallman, Jana Wiggins of MTC and Donna Rogers of the National Bone Marrow Registry Program gather at the drive on MTC’s Veterans Parkway Campus.

 LPN students Lisa Crosby, Donna Woodward, Shannika Reddick, Pat Saunders and Sonya Stanton enjoy the refreshments provided by the Moultrie Junior Woman’s Club.
   
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LPN student Julie Saly takes a tissue swab
from MTC’s Financial Aid assistant Carol Mathis.