Help Vinay & Sameer

By: Reena Bhatia

Do you know what it feels like to be carried through the crowd at a huge gathering on top of peoples’ hands? Where you have to trust the hearts of the people below you to keep you going. Well, I didn’t know how that felt before Sameer was diagnosed with AML, now I do. It’s all those hands that are taking us to our goal of 50,000 new registrations. Both Sameer and Vinay are being carried by those hands, and Rashmi and I along with them.

We have been tremendously moved by the stories of people wanting to do drives, people that do not personally know any of us, people that love us - all putting valuable efforts into what is most necessary for us right now. You are all changing the face of this need. Hopefully all of the efforts these past few months and the awareness that you’ve helped bring to the issue will make it unnecessary for anyone who is diagnosed with a blood cancer to have to wonder if they’ll find a match in time.

All those hands are making a huge difference in how we solve this problem for future patients. There aren’t enough words in Webster’s to describe how much gratitude and how humbled our families, Sameer and I feel when we think of all of your contributions.

Let me give it a try with a simple, “You Rock!!!”