{"id":1258,"date":"2010-09-28T09:49:41","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T16:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=1258"},"modified":"2010-10-14T08:43:53","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T15:43:53","slug":"rejection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=1258","title":{"rendered":"Rejection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ten years ago I signed up for the Canadian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blood.ca\/centreapps\/internet\/uw_v502_mainengine.nsf\/page\/E_ubmdrPKG-intro?opendocument&#038;CloseMenu\">bone marrow registry<\/a>.  Seems like a no-brainer, especially since a nephew-in-law of mine has recently survived leukemia by means of a bone marrow transplant.<\/p>\n<p>This morning I got a call saying I was a potential donor.  But it seems that a bit of atrial fibrillation in my medical history may prove a deal-breaker.  I offered to sign a waiver; I should have just lied&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: October 14: the transplant centre rejected me.  They didn&#8217;t tell me the reason, so it was either the atrial fib or the malaria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten years ago I signed up for the Canadian bone marrow registry. Seems like a no-brainer, especially since a nephew-in-law of mine has recently survived leukemia by means of a bone marrow transplant. This morning I got a call saying I was a potential donor. But it seems that a bit of atrial fibrillation in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=1258\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rejection&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-1258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-atrial-fibrillation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1261,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions\/1261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}