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Wishing Our
Clients a Very
Happy Healthy
New Year!

Urgent Call

Bone marrow match could
save Detroiter's life.

Sansappelle
Trunk Show
September
27, 28 & 29

Robert A. Sklar
Editor

had medical tests only to discover that
he had Myelodysplastic Syndrome
(MDS), an abnormality of the stem
oy Gaines Friedler
cells in the bone marrow. The
is just trying to
condition led to leukemia.
give her cousin
Friedler describes Bob as "just
Delly's husband, Bob Rycus,
a wonderful guy."
the most precious gift of all:
"It's a long shot:' she said
the gift of life.
about the registry. "But doesn't
She's urging the Detroit
it feel good to do something?
Jewish community to join
We are given so much opportu-
Bob Rycus
the National Bone Marrow
nity to affect the lives of others,
Donor Program Registry in
mostly without knowing it. Here
hopes that a match will be found for
is one opportunity we can consciously
Rycus and save his life.
take. What a gift!"
"The computer keeps looking for a
The Rycuses went Tampa to see an
match so it is not necessary to register
expert in the field of MDS. Bob is now
specifically for Bob;' said Friedler, who
on an experimental drug intended to
lives in Farmington Hills with her hus-
keep him strong until a bone marrow
band, Moti.
donor is found.
Bob Rycus, 63, is a retired prop-
Unfortunately, of the 10 million
erty manager. The Detroit Mumford
people in the world registry, no one,
High School graduate and his wife,
as of now, fully matches Rycus' genetic
Delly, moved from Farmington Hills
tissue makeup.
to Boynton Beach, Fla., in 2001. They
"However, all it takes is one person
remain huge Detroit Lions fans. He
— one match:' said the ever-confident
hasn't missed the Thanksgiving Day
Friedler. "And the chances are more
game in 54 years. Son Josh, 33, a physi- likely that the match will come from
cian, also lives in Florida.
within the Jewish community."
After feeling unusually tired, Rycus

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The National Bone Marrow Donor
Program Web site is
www.marrow.org . Register online
and a packet will be sent to you.
You will be asked to take a cotton
swab sample from your cheek and
return it. There is a $52 charge.
According to the Web site: On
any given day, more than 6,000
men, women and children are
searching the National Marrow
Donor Program Registry for a
lifesaving donor like you. These
patients have leukemia, lymphoma

Annual Meeting Slated
Reviewing last year's accomplish-
ments and setting the direction for
the new year, the Jewish Federation
and the United Jewish Foundation of
Metropolitan Detroit will hold a com-
bined annual meeting at 7 p.m. Sunday,
Sept. 23, at the Jewish Community
Center in West Bloomfield.
Highlighting the meeting will be the
election and installation of officers and
members-at-large to the Federation and
Foundation boards and the installation

and other life-threatening dis-
eases that can be treated by a
bone marrow or cord blood trans-
plant. For many of these patients,
a transplant may be the best and
only hope of a cure.
For a successful transplant,
the tissue type of a bone marrow
donor or a cord blood unit needs
to match the patient's as closely
as possible. Special testing deter-
mines whether a patient and bone
marrow donor or cord blood unit
are a good match. The closer the
match, the better for the patient.

of Nancy Grosfeld, who succeeds Peter
M. Alter, as president of Federation.
Federation's highest honor, the Fred
M. Butzel Award, will be presented
to U.S. District Court Judge Paul D.
Borman, a longstanding community
activist and philanthropist.
In corporate partnership with Chase,
the event is open to the community. A
dessert reception will immediately fol-
low. There is no cost to attend, but res-
ervations are requested. To RSVP, call
Susan Cassels Kamin, (248) 203-1524.

