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Hong Kong female volleyball player Liu Yunlin suffers from two types of leukemia and urgently seeks bone marrow transplant, appeals to interested people to register

2021-09-10T03:25:02.636Z


Harriet, a Hong Kong volleyball player who played for the South China Women’s Volleyball Team, has been fighting blood cancer for 6 years. However, she revealed that her condition had changed earlier and unfortunately suffered from two types of leukemia at the same time, because she has not been able to find suitable bone marrow transplants.


Harriet, a Hong Kong volleyball player who played for the South China Women’s Volleyball Team, has been fighting blood cancer for 6 years. However, she revealed that her condition had changed earlier and unfortunately suffered from two types of leukemia at the same time. Because she has not been able to find suitable bone marrow for transplantation, yesterday. (9th) Ask for help through social networks, hoping that enthusiastic citizens can register as donors and extend a helping hand to her or other people in need.


Liu Yunlin revealed through her personal social network that she recently "suddenly put down all the work to beat the big guys." It was all because after suffering from "chronic myelogenous leukemia" six years ago, although she has been taking targeted drugs to control her condition, Life is no different from ordinary people.

However, by the end of July this year, her body was abnormal again. In addition to fever, her white blood cell index was also low (1.0), and she was finally diagnosed with "acute myelogenous leukemia", which means that two types of blood cancer appeared at the same time. Gene mutation".

Although Liu Yunlin's anti-cancer experience is painful, she still uploads photos of her fist, seeming to cheer for herself.

(Facebook/Harriet Liu)

Yun Lin continued that acute myelogenous leukemia requires urgent treatment, so chemotherapy has been started, and the accompanying side effects are even more painful. "It is not a dream to lose 10 pounds a week." You have to vomit the last meal before eating. When you reach the bottom of your stomach, you have to be happy first, but the point is that you can’t eat it at all, and the water you drink will vomit out of the sun, so you don’t even dare to eat.”

After completing the 7-day course of the first round of chemotherapy, a few days later, the fever started again. "The blood test found that there was bacteria in the blood." The small throat tube used for medicine, blood transfusion and blood drawing was required immediately. After demolishing, she also told her condition: "The fever for the first 4 days was really hard, all of which were above 39 degrees. The cold shock made my whole body feel bad, but it stopped completely until it didn't shock. It lasted for two or three minutes after a shock. It's a test of willpower!" She said that once a wound bleeds, it cannot be healed. She has to have blood transfusions every two days, which is very sad.

Yunlin finally said, knowing that something happened suddenly, but "It's really good and needs help from everyone." Because there is no suitable bone marrow transplant for the time being, she hopes that someone who is interested will register as a bone marrow donor. "I know the opportunity is not great, but I hope everyone is willing. Give it a try, please help me or other people in need, I am grateful!"

According to the information of the Hong Kong Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service Center, citizens who are interested in becoming bone marrow donors can go to the fixed blood donation station of the Hong Kong Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service Center to complete the registration and blood test procedures; the registrant must first undergo a blood test to confirm their white blood cell organization Type. If the registrant’s white blood cell tissue type matches the patient’s type, it is a suitable donor. For details, please visit the Hong Kong Red Cross website.

Source: hk1

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