{"id":9993,"date":"2012-06-25T20:59:09","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T01:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=9993"},"modified":"2012-06-25T21:54:48","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T02:54:48","slug":"please-help-us-find-a-marrow-donor-for-jessica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2012\/06\/please-help-us-find-a-marrow-donor-for-jessica\/","title":{"rendered":"Postal Pointers: Please Help Us Find <BR>A Marrow Donor For Jessica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>by Debra J. Mitchell \u2013 United States Postal Service<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>Special to the Gazette<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Jessica-Dove.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9994\" title=\"Jessica Dove\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Jessica-Dove-300x280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Jessica-Dove-300x280.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Jessica-Dove.jpg 311w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jessica Dove is a thirty two year old single mother with two young children; Joey, age twelve and Jasmine, age six.\u00a0 Jessica was diagnosed with colon cancer in June 2011 and has been given six to seven months to live.\u00a0 A bone marrow transplant could save her life.<\/p>\n<p>Area postmasters are partnering with Florida\u2019s Blood Centers to host blood drives and an opportunity to register for the National Bone Marrow Registry.\u00a0 Those who are not blood donors can still do the marrow testing.\u00a0 Marrow testing is painless and involves a simple swabbing of the mouth with a q-tip.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The public is urged to participate at these locations:<!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p>July 2 &#8211;\u00a0 Page Field P.O.,2655 N. Airport Rd,Ft.Myers11 am to 4 pm<\/p>\n<p>July 19 \u2013 Tice P.O.,4585 Palm Beach Blvd,Ft.Myers1 pm \u2013 5 pm<\/p>\n<p>July 19 \u2013 Punta Gorda P.O., 130 E. Marion Ave, 1:30 pm \u2013 5:30 pm<\/p>\n<p>July 23 \u2013 Bonita Springs P.O., 26150 OldU.S.41, 1 pm \u2013 5 pm<\/p>\n<p>July 31 \u2013 Estero P.O.,20791 Three Oaks Pkwy., 1 pm \u2013 5 pm<\/p>\n<p>Aug. 17 \u2013 CapeCoral P.O., 1030 SE 9<sup>th<\/sup> Ave., 1 pm \u2013 5 pm<\/p>\n<p>Local businesses are encouraged to host blood drives with marrow testing at their locations.\u00a0 Please contact Denise Stiles at 239-939-1811 ext. 3 to plan a life-saving drive soon.<\/p>\n<p>The United States Postal Service is proud of the 56,909 postal employees and family members who have registered for the National Bone Marrow registry.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Debra J. Mitchell \u2013 United States Postal Service Special to the Gazette Jessica Dove is a thirty two year old single mother with two young children; Joey, age twelve&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}