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s a Southfield family
continues the search
for a bone-marrow
donor to save their son's life,
friends are gathering
together to raise money for
the quest.
After Southfield-Lathrup
High School graduate
Jonathan Cohen, 19, was
first diagnosed with
leukemia in December, he
went into a brief remission
with the help of
chemotherapy. But when the
disease returned last month,
doctors told Cohen his best
chance for recovery was fin-
ding a bone-marrow donor.
Family members are
usually checked to see if
they make compatabile do-
nors. However, because
Cohen was adopted as a
baby, neither his mother,
Charlene Ehrlich, nor his
sister, Shelia, 26, are good
matches.
Although insurance will
pay for Cohen's medical
bills, it will not pay for the
donor search, which may run
as high as $25,000.
To help defray the cost, a
three-hour fund-raising re-
ception will be held at 3 p.m.
June 3 at the Southfield
Sheraton Hotel. The recep-
tion will include two barber-
shop quartets and perfor-
mances from Southfield
Lathrup High School
students. Oakland County
Commissioners have
declared June 3 as
Johnathan Cohen Day in his
honor.
In addition to the recep-
tion, the West Bloomfield of-
fice of the Michigan Group
Realty Co., where Cohen's
sister Shelia works, has
begun a candy sale to raise
money.
A discretionary fund in
Cohen's name, established
by Congregation Beth
Achim Rabbi Martin Ber-
man has raised about
$5,000. Rabbi Berman
agreed to establish the fund
after congregation member
and Ehrlich's friend, Helene
Gottfried, requested it.
The search for a donor has
taken Cohen to Youngstown,
Ohio, where a probate court
recently gave him permis-
sion to open adoptions records
in hopes of finding his
natural family.
Once his natural parents
are discovered, they must be
tested to determine if they
are suitable donors. Cohen's
best chance for a match is
finding a brother or sister
from his natural parents.
The hunt for Cohen's
biological family is progress-
ing, Ehrlich said. Finding
Cohen's natural parents has
been difficult because the
adoption records kept 20
years ago were incomplete.
All they contained was an
address where Cohen's
natural mother had lived
with her parents.
A trip into his biological
mother's neighborhood
yielded little about her
whereabouts, she said.
Although neighbors re-
membered the family, they
didn't know what had
happened to the daughter.
Ehrlich has discovered two
half-siblings who may be
Ehrlich has
discovered two
half-siblings who
could be donors.
potential donors. She will
not know until later this
week when the pair can be
tested.
Doctors are waiting for
Cohen's white blood count to
increase before they deter-
mine his tissue type. Once
the tissue type is known,
doctors will try to match it
up with those found in the
National Bone Marrow
Registry. The registry holds
the names and tissue types
of more than 100,000 poten-
tial bonemarrow donors.
If no compatible donors are
found in the national
registry, Ehrlich asks local
residents to become pheresis
donors. The chances of fin-
ding an unrelated donor are
one in 20,000.
Cohen is often tired from
the chemotherapy
treatments he continues to
undergo, Erhlich said. Every
day she drives Cohen to the
doctor's office for tests or
treatments.
It is one of the few times
Cohen can leave the Green-
field Road apartment, she
said. Before his illness,
Cohen, who once worked at a
local restaurant, loved to
drive. But doctors, afraid
that Cohen will get into an
accident and begin bleeding
profusely, have told him not
do to so.
Sometimes friends will
come over and watch televi-
sion with him, Ehrlich said.
"He has his good days and
his bad days," she said.