A few weeks ago we found out that Frank Kinder, our friend and part of the family, is very ill. The word for the illness is leukemia. To get rid of it, Frank started chemotherapy, a few times already. He was hoping to get bone marrow from his brothers or his sister, but unluckily it turned out that they are not compatible. And in the wide database of the organisation for leukemia donors there is no suitable donor YET. So he has to wait and see, and hope to find him or her.
Frank is married to Carolina Guillot and has a son Santiago with her who is only two yeas old. At the moment, Frank is in the hospital and is having a third chemotherapy. Under these circumstances, he is relatively fine.
However, he needs a compatible bone marrow donor to survive and stay healthy.
You can help! Join the database NOW!
In the USA , in the UK , in Germany or in any other country!
If you are a German resident, you can also order a special kit home and do a test alone, without pain and without waiting or missing your job. Read here.
If you live in Hannover, visit Frank’s event on
September 12, 10:00 – 16:00 at
Peter Petersen Schule
Böhmerstraße 10
30173 Hannover
Frank Kinder is one of many thousands. So if you are not HIS hero, maybe you can be a hero for someone else. Find the nearest registry, make a test and maybe you can soon save a life!
With this website, we want to inform all about leukemia in general and about Frank personally. We want to find as many potential donors as possible, to gather donations and to help in the organization of the Hannover event.
We are also happy about any kind of donation:
DKMS-SPENDENKONTO:
910030898
Sparkasse Hannover
BLZ 250 501 80
IBAN: DE55250501800910030898
BIC: SPKHDE2HXXX
We are:
Ingo Schepers
Andreas Schepers
Kateryna Mysak
And YOU!
We start this campaign to inform as many as possible and to encourage them to become a member (potential donor of bone marrow) of this organisation.
Here is the list of registries who participate in Bone Marrow Donors Worldwide. Be a potential donor in the US here. In the UK here.
And this is the website of the US National Cancer Institute where you can find information about leukemia and its treatment.
For other questions write to us, hopefully we can help.
A comment from a friend from the UK.
Eddie K.
Hi! It was really quite ok, painless and quick. Well, it was quick once they had gone through the medical questionnaire, checked my blood iron level and decided I was safe to donate. The nurse just stuck the needle in my arm, checked the blood was flowing and buzzed off to look after other people. They had a whole bank of donors there hooked up to special platelet donation machines. It’s quite a similar process to stem cell donation, they take the blood out of one tube, it goes through the machine that extracts the platelets and then the blood is returned to circulation through another tube. I had no idea about such things! I don’t think I’d want to do it though because it takes a long time and it really is best if donors commit to doing it regularly. I think I will just go and donate whole blood again. Nursey floated back in a couple of minutes, thanked me and unclipped a 470ml pouch full of the red stuff. I didn’t feel faint or anything. They also took a blood sample and sent it off to the British Bone Marrow Registry where they will do a tissue analysis.
Here our system is quite different from your DKMS. The National Blood Service doesn’t send out the DNA swab kits of the type you guys have been using, they only put existing blood donors on the marrow donation registry. I guess it means that there are fewer potential matches available, but they know that everyone from those matches will be suitable donors.
So best wishes to Frank, with luck a tissue match will be found soon. I’m off to eat some ice cream. :D