Match Needed to Save Dr. Anh Reiss (Nguyen)

This letter was recently sent to us.  It is regarding Dr. Anh Reiss (Nguyen).  She has contracted a fatal bone marrow disease.  A bone marrow transfer will likely save her life.  The problem is that it is very hard to find Vietnamese donors (the ethnicity should match).  Please consider testing to see if you’re a match.  The process:

1) Go to the website, sign up for the free kit
2) When the kit comes, rub the cotton swab in your mouth, send it back
3) You’re done

It’s a pain free process that could save a life.  Contact information and more about Dr. Reiss in the letter below (sent by one of her former patient, Dylan Russell).

My family’s OB/GYN, Dr. Anh Reiss (Nguyen), needs a bone marrow stem cell match for a fatal bone marrow disease that she was diagnosed with in February of 2009.  Here is a recent news story on Channel 2 in Houston: Video

We just had a baby last year and have a four-year-old, both of whom were delivered by Dr. Anh Reiss at SW Memorial, in Houston, Texas, which is where Dr. Reiss offices. Unfortunately, none of her family members were a match, and being Vietnamese makes her potential donor pool very small, since so few in the Vietnamese community participate in such donor programs.

Dr. Reiss’s Facebook page is as follows: [link].  The page will explain the disease and how you can help.  What Anh Reiss needs most is as many people of Asian, but mostly Vietnamese, descent to provide cheek-swab samples so that we can find a match.  Free swab kits can be obtained from http://www.asianmarrow.org/ or http://www.aadp.org or http://www.aabmf.org/.  Please email me if anyone has any questions.  I will try to answer all questions.  Thanks!

Dylan and Skye Russell
281-678-7700 (cell)
713-742-3161 (wife’s cell: Skye Russell)
713-977-8686 (work)
work email: russell@hooverslovacek.com

P.S. PLEASE HELP!!  Dr. Reiss graciously helped our family through some tough times and difficult lost pregnancies.  We love her.  We would like to return the favor and help her and her family in such a difficult time.