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Help Save Gabby Bone Marrow Drive

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 49 Route 25a Shoreham NY 11786  See map

Gabrielle Mongillo is only 1 and ½ years old. In her young life all she has known is the love of the parents who adopted her and the pain of the leukemia she’s had since birth.

Gabby was born with Acute Myeloid Leukemia and is in urgent need of a bone marrow transplant to survive, but since she was adopted from Yemen, she has no matches within her family.

Luckily for Gabby fellow community member Matthew McGuire, whose son Liam has had his battle
with leukemia, has decided to do what he can to help find her life-saving match.

A bone marrow drive will be held in hopes of finding a match for Gabby and others like her. Getting swabbed takes 5 minutes, but it could mean a lifetime for someone like Gabby. Could you be her match?

For updates and information on the September 23rd drive visit http://www.facebook.com/pages/Friends-4-Liam/149992491724035

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Janet May 22, 2013 at 04:52 pm
Bravo MP Majority, very well said.Teachers are the most protected job on the planet. Now if theyRead More could only earn that money by producing results in the classrooms like they used to. But I also blame the absent NO vote. They need to be sent a message-we need a majority no vote but that will never happen. Glad I am out of here in 2 years. Can't imagine trying to live here and pay these taxes on social security and my 401K that tanked in 2008 while I was making up the teachers loss on their pension and paying my health insurance & theirs at the same time. So boo hoo teachers you have to spend money on the kids while I spend money on you.
MP Majority May 17, 2013 at 01:41 pm
Spoken like a true teacher. Did you know that the average school teacher is only paying 15% of theRead More actual cost of health care premiums for themselves and their families, when Medical healthcare insurance premiums are rising at an alarming 17% per annum? Do you realize that teachers are paid an additional stipend if they work more than 3 consecutive periods in a day? Are you aware that teacher pensions were protected during the stock market crash of 2008, when the average person's 401K was totally at risk? Perhaps if teachers realized how good they have it - look at the BIG picture and outside of their bubble - then they would complain less. Oh and yes, we need our loftily-paid Administrators to kick in some of the salaries, to help pay for stuff. Hard to believe the school districts' mantras that "it's all for the kids".