Meet Cameron Lyle
A University of New Hampshire track and field star hailed as a hero after he quit the team so he can donate bone marrow has given two liters of it to a complete stranger.
Cameron Lyle, a senior, grabbed national attention last week when he said he would selflessly end his collegiate track and field career to give the gift of life to a 28-year-old leukemia patient.
Mr Lyle does not know the patient’s name, but was told that he had been given just six months to live.
The 21-year-old had joined the bone marrow registry back in his sophomore year, but it wasn’t until two months ago that he was contacted because he was a 100 per cent match for the man.
He said that the choice to donate was a no-brainer, but doing so would mean that the promising shot put, hammer and discus-thrower would have to sit out the rest of the season. […]
After a year, Lyle and the recipient will both have the opportunity to sign consent forms to reveal their identities to each other.
Lyle told the Eagle Tribune: ‘I’d love to meet him some day,’ He’s not that much older than myself. I just can’t imagine what he’s going through.’
Despite missing several big meets – including the America East Championships and the Penn Relays – Mr Lyle has no regrets.
He told Today: ‘It’s OK. It was worth it. I would do it again, too.’
wow that’s one of them things what’s a damn sight harder on the donor than on the recipient I hope everything goes super well to where Mr. Lyle is back up and at em in no time
plus Mr. Lyle could be accidentally giving his marrow to some gay dude
it’s a very risky procedure
here’s the organization Mr. Lyle seems to be working with it’s not mentioned in the daily mail story for some reason
No one should accuse you of being rather focused in your commenting. That’d just be silly.
We can count happyfeet among the people who’d thank G-d if he ever needed something like this that the donor doesn’t know who he’s giving it to.
let’s see in comment one I relate my understanding of how painful and difficult this procedure can be for the donor
in comment two I explain how selfless this is on top of all the other sacrifices
in comment three I give a plug to the enabling organization what the dailymail propaganda sluts failed to do – even in their caption of the pic they just say “Cameron Lyle shows off his ‘Wildcat pride,”which is a weird oversight
corrected by me, cause of on account of the focus
Don’t talk to me like I’m stupid, hf.
Our visionary founder was Admiral E. R. Zumwalt Jr. — the U.S. Navy’s youngest four star admiral and later Chief of Naval Operations. When his eldest son, Elmo, needed a bone marrow transplant to treat lymphoma, Admiral Zumwalt recognized the significant financial needs of patients being served by the NMDP.
After Elmo passed away, Admiral Zumwalt and his wife created The Marrow Foundation, now called Be The Match Foundation, to help meet that need.
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I never heard of Mr. Admiral Zumwalt my whole life
It seems that your inability to out yourself is causing you to leak homophobiaphobia into your every utterance. Poor boy.
no Mr. Abe in fact did you know gay peoples are excluded from joining the bone marrow registry it’s true but I don’t care that’s probably just how it needs to be to make super sure nothing happens like what happened in red white and blue
*spoiler alert*
For fuck’s sake.
It’s very, very, very important to talk about what hf thinks is important.
All the time. In a significant number of threads.
For added fun we’ll do so in baby talk and use sophomoric reasoning.
This is discourse. This is adult discussion.
Is it Aids Dementia which renders you incapable of recognizing the difference between being a donor and being a recipient?
the registry is both for people who want to donate and for also the recipients
the gay people rule is just for the donors if you’re a recipient I’m pretty sure they don’t ask but there’s no FAQ for that
Did you even wonder why they’re all hatey on the butthole sex but they allow carpet munchers to donate? It’s probably because straight men like lesbian porn. That’s my guess.
Really?
Moron.
– feets seems to be on another one of his bi-annual slides down the slippery slope of adult interaction.
– Could be he lost his bottle of paste. Again.
correction Mr. Abe the Be The Match orgaanization is specifically just a donor registry:
The National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP), a nonprofit organization, is the global leader in providing bone marrow and umbilical cord blood transplants to patients in need. As Be The Match, we operate the Be The Match Registry, the world’s largest listing of potential marrow donors and donated cord blood units and raise funds to help provide transplants to all patients through the Be The Match Foundation. We also match patients with donors, educate health care professionals and conduct research through our research arm, the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research® (CIBMTR), so more lives can be saved.
like what happened in red white and blue
A movie was made starring nobody?
Thank Zeus we’re tracking this down. It’s very important.
If he says something that bugs you, you can just not respond. It’s true. I do it all the time to him and other folks on here too.
Or you can all just keep cluttering up every fucking thread with the same old bullshit then wondering why this place isn’t as cool as it used to be.
I suppose I could also speak my mind, BMoe.
Does that bother you?
red white and blue if I remember right starts one of the potential slayers from Buffy season 7
*stars* I mean
Sorry, I have to say this, friend.
If you actually think I’m cluttering up every fucking thread with this bullshit?
You’re fucking retarded.
No butthex for 5 whole years? Who do these people think they are? Putting public health and safety ahead of your right to self-expression. Is this America or isn’t it? Besides, so what if a recipient also recieves AIDS? I mean, it’s not like they weren’t already dying, right? We should be free to have all the butthex we want AND prove what good noble generous people we are by donating our fluids and tissues if that’s our choice. FOR FREEDOM!
AND CUPCAKES TOO!
it’s just a sensible precaution Mr. Ernst
watch that movie they explain the whole thing
No, he’s just an asshat.
/occam’s razor and all…
I got screwed out of a whole lot of fucking in college because the AIDS risk for straights propaganda was in hyper-drive, and I’m never again going to entertain irrational gay community bullshit.
If it was sensible, why bother to mention it in the first place?
And life’s too short to watch shitty movies.
That’s his thing. That’s what he has to offer.
Sure, it was a weak ex post facto justification for trolling that he then had to immediately drop but… something, I guess.
I got screwed out of a whole lot of fucking
You don’t by any chance write headlines for a living do you? Cause I think I read one of yours yesterday about a “Naked Woman Dressed as the Pope”.
Sorry. Its laaate here.
– Just to show the thread doesn’t have to go the flusher…..
– Did everyone see Bubblefucks response today when a reporter asked him about the Benghazi “threats”?
I am a writer. But more the kind that gets flogged for using two words that can have the same meaning in a sentence. I actually felt physically ill after I clicked “post comment.”
Now, if it was a roundabout way of pointing out why Obama won’t be calling to congratulate him and to tell him how proud of him he is, then that at least would be something.
Pssst: Sarah Palin! Lila Rose!
Not sure if attacking Palin and Rose at an event honoring Heroic Mothers so close to Mothers Day is going to get the frothers much traction. Just sayin.
– She still scares them shitless….amazing.
I was just thinking of an easy way to figure out who is cluttering threads with bullshit.
See you guys back here on May 8th. Let’s keep track of the results.
OT but you just never know when your time is up.
That is one good fellow.
Word:
Threadwinner:
I’m on the bone marrow donor list.
Obama’s an asshole congratulating a gay man, who lied to a woman for 8 years. Yea, that’s some bravery.
Fucked her life up good, wasting her time.
He’s not a hero, he’s an asshole who put himself before others.
We dysfunctionals see that as a faulty chooser.
Also known as, “Why I don’t drive in that area.”
Some places just feel dangerous for no rational reason. And then there’s Atlanta, which is dangerous for no rational reason.
BT, I heard a phrase that sort of sums up the randomness:
“The day you die is just like all the rest. Only shorter.”
Helicopter parents take note. If young Sana had taken the perfectly good school bus, Mom would be alive today and frying up papadams.
If young Sana had taken the perfectly good school bus
Homeschool. This tire story just proves again that public school kills. If it saves just one life… for the children… etc.
Wrong narrative, mondamay: private transportation kills. It kills Mother Gaia who is much more important than some stupid school kid.
/progg
Stoaty Weasel has a good one of Dear Leader emoting. And in case you found her unclear:
I would rather you continued to comment, bh, than do your proposed experiment.
The vast majority know the sources of the bullshit around here.
” It kills Mother Gaia who is much more important than some stupid school kid.”
40,00 years or more she’s been trying to kill us. She’s not a bright peaceful pastoral meadow. She’s a horribly skinny cat going to sleep for the last time in a dry hole with no more strength to scratch at the fleas. She’s a fish taking a bite out of another fish. Anyone who loves her makes for a poor neighbor. I’m just sayin’.
leigh says May 1, 2013 at 9:59 am
Wrong narrative, mondamay: private transportation kills.
Nah. This is LIV outreach. I’m simply pointing out that using the “rationale” *cough* of the masses my opposition to public schools makes perfect sense, and the time to act is now. My next step will be to approach the family for some grief-wracked victims to put on public display.
I would rather you continued to comment, bh
Same here, unless you already had a vacation planned or something, in which case, go for it.
Well placed, Mr Lyle!
Nice to see someone has his attention focused correctly. Sure be nice if the virtue recce was as focused.