Donor sought for former Ridgewood athlete
Monday December 2, 2013, 1:33 PM
BY Â LAURA HERZOG
STAFF WRITER
The Ridgewood News
Anthony Daniels, a Fordham University student and former Ridgewood High School (RHS) hockey player, took up boxing a few years ago and goes to the gym every day to lift weights.
He also cracks jokes about having “chemo brain” and laughs about how terrible hospital food is.
“I haven’t really sat in my bed and cried at all,” said Anthony, a 2009 RHS graduate who has a rare, stubborn case of Hodgkin’s Lymphoma that is not responding well to treatments. “I also don’t think that I could die, to be honest with you. I don’t think of that as a possibility.”
Anthony is the definition of a fighter, but now he needs an angel. Residents are encouraged to attend a local donor registration drive on Saturday, Dec. 21 to learn if they can be his “angel donor” of white blood cells – among less than 1 percent of the population that could be his perfect match.
Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, according to the National Cancer Institute, is a cancer of the immune system that affected about 9,000 new Americans this year, with about a 90 to 95 percent cure rate among children.
At the drive, taking place in Village Hall from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., healthy people ages 18 to 44 will get the inside of their cheek swabbed. Anyone who is a match for Anthony or others in need will be contacted later to undergo a process similar to blood donation.
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