{"id":22544,"date":"2021-07-14T11:14:32","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T15:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/?p=22544"},"modified":"2021-07-20T08:36:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T12:36:50","slug":"campus-bone-marrow-drive-saves-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/2021\/07\/campus-bone-marrow-drive-saves-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Campus bone marrow drive saves lives"},"content":{"rendered":"
A bone marrow drive on Marshall University\u2019s campus made all the difference in the life of a young girl and changed the life of a Marshall University student.<\/p>\n

Cody Fuller was an exercise science student at the time, on a casual scroll through the Memorial Student Center in the Spring of 2019, when he saw friends at the DKMS Bone Marrow Donor Drive table and decided to participate.<\/p>\n

Deutsche Knochen Mark Spenderdatei or DKMS is an international nonprofit bone marrow donor center based in Germany.<\/p>\n

Little did Cody know that he would be a match for a one-year-old girl named Ella Siders. Ella had acute myeloid leukemia and Cody Fuller was a bone marrow match. Fuller underwent a procedure on February 17, 2020, just 3 days before his 21st birthday, to provide the bone marrow. And a day later, on February 18, Ella Siders received his donation and her life was saved.<\/p>\n

Cody said to be able to help this young girl and this family meant the world to him.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe donation experience has been the most special thing I have ever been a part of,\u201d Fuller said. \u201cThe feeling to help Ella was unlike no other. I was so glad to help a little girl in her fight against cancer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Commenting in a video done by DKMS, Christina Siders, Ella\u2019s mom, says Cody has meant the world to their family.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis process has been hard and it\u2019s nice to have a reason for celebration,\u201d Siders said. \u201cCody has always been positive and a symbol of optimism and cure.\u201d<\/p>\n

The bone marrow drive at Marshall was organized by nursing graduate Adam Guthrie who now works as a registered nurse for the Charleston Area Medical Center and Cabell Huntington Hospital. He\u2019s currently working on his master\u2019s in nursing to work as a Family Nurse Practitioner. Guthrie has coordinated approximately 20 drives at Marshall registering over 1,500 students, including the drive where Cody Fuller donated.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am very surprised at how many students have matched because you have a less than 1% chance of matching,\u201d Guthrie said. \u201cI truly never thought our involvement with DKMS would be where it is today.\u201d<\/p>\n

Guthrie says a donation has less than a 1% of matching and yet there have been seven matches at Marshall. Fuller plans to start this fall at the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine.<\/p>\n

For more on Cody and Ella\u2019s story visit https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ngv87W3VRUo<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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