{"id":220,"date":"2007-03-09T18:34:15","date_gmt":"2007-03-09T18:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/?p=220"},"modified":"2007-03-09T18:34:15","modified_gmt":"2007-03-09T18:34:15","slug":"friday-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/life-on-hold\/friday-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

On a serious note, those of you that live in the south may have seen a news item on Wednesday about Keiton Knight. an 8 year old boy who died on 1st march from leukaemia after a 4 year fight. Keiton was waiting for a bone marrow transplant, but being of Afro-Caribbean descent, donors are hard to find, and mixed races are greatly under-represented on the registers of bone marrow donors. Sadly he was unsuccessful, although his story raised awareness and many new mixed race donors were found through his story. Keiton is featured on like2like<\/a>, a web site set up by a fellow transplant patient, Sarah, who is also of mixed race, but was fortunate in finding a suitable donor and is now in remission from acute myloid leukaemia. For those that are interested, here is a link to The Afro-Caribbean Leukaemia Trust<\/a> which promotes awareness of the problems that mixed race patients have in finding donors and has more information about Keiton. And if anyone (whether mixed race or not) would like to become a donor, details can be found from The Anthony Nolan Trust<\/a> website.<\/p>\n

My apologies to those who were briefly barred from the blog during the week! As part of my campaign against spammers, I loaded a number of IP addresses into the site blacklist. However I was using a different method of extracting them (taking them directly from the blog database) and I took one or two legitimate IP addresses! I will be repeating the exercise again (there are currently 250 spam comments that have been caught by the filter waiting to be ‘dealt with’) so should it happen again, please e-mail me<\/a> and let me know (you had better note that now because if you are locked out of the site, you won’t see the e mail address!)<\/p>\n

Other than that, nothing else to report healthwise. My next check up is on Thursday, and that will be six weeks after the DLI! However on the food front, I have re-discovered something even better than bacon sandwiches… Bacon & Mushroom sandwiches! Bring on the Calories!<\/p>\n

Onwards and Upwards!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On a serious note, those of you that live in the south may have seen a news item on Wednesday about Keiton Knight. an 8 year old boy who died on 1st march from leukaemia after a 4 year fight. Keiton was waiting for a bone marrow transplant, but being of Afro-Caribbean descent, donors are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-on-hold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}