DIE kans dat net \u00e9\u00e9n uit \u2019n honderd duisend mense \u2019n perfekte stamselskenker vir hom kon wees, het skraal gelyk vir \u2019n bekende sitrusboer van Patensie. Dis al manier hoe Lourens Ferreira (75) se bloedkanker (leukemie) hok geslaan kon word.<\/p>\n
Die kanker het hom bekruip deur \u2019n groeisel soos \u2019n moesie aan sy been, wat toe ge\u00efdentifiseer is as \u2019n melanoom. \u2019n Kaapse professor besluit \u2019n stamselskenker moet gevind word. Na intensiewe voorbereiding van chemo en bestraling het hy op 7 Desember 2000 die oorplanting gekry.<\/p>\n
Na \u2019n paar maande was die chroniese millino\u00efede (leukemie) terug. Hy het die tweede keer \u2019n oorplanting van dieselfde skenker gekry. <\/p>\n
Die skenking en duur medikasie van oorsee het hom genees van die kanker asook hepatitis B wat nie verwant was aan die oorplanting nie. Die professor meen Lourens is \u2019n wonderwerk weens die sukses van \u2019n nie-verwante stamselskenker.<\/p>\n
Gaandeweg het Lourens die behoefte gehad om die skenker, wat vir hom \u2019n verlengde kwaliteit lewe moontlik gemaak het, te ontmoet. Die re\u00ebls van die Suid-Afrikaanse Beenmurg Register was dat die die pasi\u00ebnt en skenker mekaar vir vyf jaar nie mag ontmoet nie – vandag drie jaar. Dan mag die skenker en pasi\u00ebnt anonieme kontak h\u00ea, en daarna mag die pasi\u00ebnt \u2019n ontmoeting aanvra wat deur die Suid-Afrikaanse Beenmurg Register gefasiliteer word. <\/p>\n
Skenker was onbaatsugte jong vrou<\/p>\n
Ilza Wiechmann (43) was \u2019n getroue bloedskenker vandat sy sestien jaar oud was. Na \u2019n televisieprogram was sy ge\u00efnspireer om ook stamselle te skenk. Net een buisie bloed was getrek sodat sy kon geregistreer as \u2019n skenker.<\/p>\n
Groot was haar verbasing toe sy op twintigjarige ouderdom die oproep kry dat sy \u2019n moontlike pasmaat vir \u2019n pasi\u00ebnt is en die skenking sou gaan doen by Constantiaberg Hospitaal in die Kaap indien sy \u2019n perfekte pasmaat is. \u2019n Klomp toetse is gedoen om seker te maak dat sy die perfekte pasmaat is en dat sy 100% gesond is.<\/p>\n
\u201cDit is byna soos bloedskenking, daar is net \u2019n drup aan albei arms. Bloed word uit die een arm onttrek. Dit gaan dan deur \u2019n masjien wat die stamselle van die res van die bloed skei. Daarna gaan die res van die bloed weer terug in jou liggaam. Die tydsduur wissel gewoonlik van sowat ses tot agt ure.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dankbaarheid uitgebeeld met ta-<\/p>\n
to\u00ebermerk<\/p>\n
Lourens wou so graag vir haar \u2019n geskenkie van dankbaarheid gee. Hulle het ge-epos, en hy het vir haar geld gestuur om haarself te bederf.<\/p>\n
\u201cOmdat dit vir my \u2019n emosionele saak is, het ek \u2019n tato\u00ebermerk van Tafelberg (wat Kaapstad simboliseer), met sonneblomme (wat die Sunflower Saal simboliseer) en die skenkingsdatum van 7 Desember 2000, op my voorarm laat doen. Ek is nou trots om vir mense te verduidelik wat dit vir my beteken as ek gevra word,\u201d s\u00ea die merkwaardige vrou. <\/p>\n
Sy het aangehou bloed skenk tot in haar dertigerjare, maar opgehou weens \u2019n ystertekort. <\/p>\n
Uiteindelik die groot ontmoeting<\/p>\n
\u2019n Ontmoeting tussen die twee was in 2020 beplan, maar kon ongelukkig nie voortgaan nie, as gevolg van COVID. Daarna het SABMR se maatskaplike werker \u2013 Marzelle Bothma \u2013 sedert Julie 2023 twee verdere pogings aangewend sodat Lourens die engel wat sy lewe gered het, kon ontmoet. Die derde keer het hulle die knoop deurgehak!<\/p>\n
Lourens en Ilza het mekaar oplaas laas naweek ontmoet by Lourens se huis op Jeffreysbaai. Ilza het van Pietermaritzburg gekom, en Marzelle van Kaapstad om die ontmoeting te fasiliteer.<\/p>\n
\u201cEk was baie senuagtig! Vroe\u00ebr het ek weens emosionele redes nie kans gesien nie en was bang die skenking sou nie suksesvol wees nie. Maar nou is ek meer volwasse en baie bly my pa, Lesley van Rooyen, het my ondersteun. Dit voel of ek nou afsluiting het en is dankbaar dat ek \u2019n verskil in iemand se lewe kon maak,\u201d s\u00ea Ilza, \u2019n persoonlike assistant by \u2019n finansi\u00eble adviseur.<\/p>\n
Lourens en sy vrou Judy het met gulhartige gasvryheid die gaste ontvang.<\/p>\n
\u201cDit is nou vir my so lekker om Ilza te ontmoet.Ek het haar sommer \u2018n druk gegee, en is baie dankbaar dat sy oor my pad gekom het. Daar is \u2019n spesiale band tussen ons. Nou voel ek tevrede,\u201d s\u00ea die agtermekaar afgetrede boer.<\/p>\n
Die fasiliteerder, Marzelle, s\u00ea, \u201cDis regtig selde dat so \u2019n ontmoeting plaasvind, alhoewel daar baie suksesverhale is. Dis vir ons \u2019n wonderlike positiewe storie dat hulle mekaar na 24 jaar sedert die skenking kan sien. Dis baie emosioneel, en almal is diep dankbaar.\u201d Sy s\u00ea grappenderwys om \u2019n perfekte skenker te kry is so goed soos om getroud te wees, of om \u2019n identiese tweeling te wees.<\/p>\n
Pa is \u2019n steunpilaar<\/p>\n
Lesley (76) s\u00ea hy het 22 jaar lank bloed gesenk, maar moes op 70 ophou weens velkanker. \u201cEk sou baie graag wou aanhou. Ek is baie trots op my dogter. Dis \u2019n fantastiese ding wat sy gedoen het! Dit is beslis die hoogtepunt van haar lewe om iemand se lewe te red. Daar kan nie \u2019n ho\u00ebr hoogtepunt wees nie!\u201d<\/p>\n
Marzelle Bothma van die SABMR in Kaapstad s\u00ea \u2019n skenker word gewoonlik genader as die pasi\u00ebnt se dokter \u2019n beenmurgskenker aanvra waarna SABMR se databasis van skenkers gefynkam word.<\/p>\n
\n , <\/span>\u2019n Skenker kan net drie keer in sy\/haar lewe stamselle skenk.<\/p>\n \n , <\/span>Dit kan net vir dieselfde pasi\u00ebnt wees, omdat dit so raar is dat twee mense so presies pas.<\/p>\n \n , <\/span>Die skenker moet 100% gesond wees. Sorgvuldige toetse sal dit bevestig. <\/p>\n \n , <\/span>Die persoon kry vyf dae voor die skenking inspuitings om die stamselle te \u201cmobiliseer\u201d sodat dit vrylik beskikbaar is in die bloed.<\/p>\n \n , <\/span>Dit is baie raar dat beenmurg aangevra word, maar eerder stamselle waarvan daar na die \u201cmobilisering\u201d oorgenoeg in die bloed vloei. Hierdie metode is makliker met minder risiko\u2019s vir die pasi\u00ebnt en die skenker.<\/p>\n \n , <\/span>Die skenkings kan in verskillende hospitale in Kaapstad, Durban, Johannesburg en Pretoria gedoen word.<\/p>\n \n , <\/span>Die skenking is \u2019n eenvoudige proses, met heeltydse ondersteuning. <\/p>\n \n , <\/span>Registreer by SABMR om die databasis van skenkers te vergroot. <\/p>\n \n , <\/span>Om te registreer moet ons net \u2019n smeer-monster van die binnekant van die wang kry om \u2019n spesifieke chromosoom te toets en die uitslae sal bepaal of jy \u2019n pasmaat vir iemand sal wees. Die toets word by jou afgelewer en weer deur \u2019n koerier gehaal. 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