Hacker News was incredibly kind to me two years ago when I was diagnosed with Leukemia (AML). Many friends' posts made it to the front page here:<p>- <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3083770" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3083770</a><p>- <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3149337" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3149337</a><p>- <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3297091" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3297091</a><p>After about a hundred days of friends registering & campaigning, chemo, drives, press appearances, Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr posts, I found a donor:<p>- <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3482119" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3482119</a><p>HN played a huge part in making that happen. I want to say thanks not just for me, but for all the others that gotten helped through our efforts in the past two years alone.<p>Reminder: It's easy to register, and easy to save someone:<p>- <a href="http://bethematch.org/Support-the-Cause/Donate-bone-marrow/Join-the-marrow-registry/" rel="nofollow">http://bethematch.org/Support-the-Cause/Donate-bone-marrow/J...</a>
One of the things I learned on HN back when Amit's story first came up was that many people who register as donors for a specific person end up declining to make a donation when they get contacted in a different context a few months/years later, and that's really a shame - so huge kudos to Scott for going ahead with this after all that time, because that's a crucial part of the equation.