Update Spring 2010 – Steve Jones Sri Lankan-English Mixed Race appeal

Living in Scotland, Steve continues to receive treatment pending a transplant

Original appeal launch date - December 2009

My husband, Steve Jones, is a 44 year old air traffic controller. 

In August this year he was diagnosed, completely out of the blue, with (AML) Acute Myeloid Leukaemia. 

His only symptom was a sore throat that failed to clear up with antibiotics.  He has undergone 3 intensive rounds of chemotherapy to date, all in isolation in hospital, and has now been told that for long-term survival he needs a bone marrow transplant. 

He is of mixed race; part Sri Lankan and part white (British) and has no siblings.  This means that it will be a world-wide search to find a donor for him.  We are urgently appealing to people of mixed race, Asian/white, to go onto the bone marrow register. 

Steve is a wonderful husband and fantastic father of two beautiful children, Amelia, 11, and Sammy, 7.  We love him so much and desperately hope to find a match for him so that he can live to see his children grow up. 

If you are of mixed race, please consider putting yourself on the bone marrow register and contact the African Caribbean Leukaemia Trust

Thank you.

Jo Jones Wife of Steve Jones

If you would like to join the bone marrow register to help Steve and the many thousands of people who are searching for a bone marrow match world wide, then please click here to visit our Clinics page to check the dates of our next recruitment clinic.

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