A very cute plumber in California had lost his job because of the economy, had nothing to do, and so decided to go to Coachella. There he found Sean Penn's volunteer bus and decided, why not?
The Sean Penn bus took him all over the U.S., doing all kinds of cool volunteer work. In Texas they learned about donating bone marrow to save the lives of leukemia patients. 6 out of 10 patients who need a donation die waiting for a match. Donating takes a single day out of your life, and you're fine the next day, and the person you donated your cells to is more than fine--they live, where they'd have otherwise died. All you have to do is get the inside of your cheek swabbed with a cotton swab and they put you in a database to see if you're ever a match for someone.
The plumber turned out (a year or so later) to be a match for a mid-western mother of three, and his donation saved her life.
They met for the first time last night, and when I tell you there was not a dry eye in the house, I mean the table full of beauty editors, including myself, was a river of smudged mascara. It was so incredible. She and her husband and their three adorable children met this stranger who truly saved their lives.
Do it! Imagine what it would feel like to save someone's life! Go to GetSwabbed.org, they'll send you a swab, you send it back & wait & hope for a match!
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