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From: ron@wjvax.UUCP ( Ron Christian )
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Subject: Finding biological parents -- medical reasons
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On the subject of finding lost parents:

A high school friend of my SO has cancer of the bone marrow.
She will be coming to this area to be admitted to Stanford
hospital shortly.  She is adopted and doesn't know who her
biological parents are.  In the event she needs a transplant,
what happens?  How do the proper athorities contact the
biological relitives?  What kind of emotional impact will
this have on her, her biological parents, and her adopted
parents?  Is there a such thing as an anonymous doner, and
if so, could something like that be set up in this situation?
Does the life threatening situation make a possible reunion
easier or harder?  It'd be good to get some insight into this
ahead of time as my SO is going to volunteer to help out
(babysitting, etc) while her friend is here and I will necessarily
have to get involved as well.  Thoughts?
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	Ron Christian  (Watkins-Johnson Co.  San Jose, Calif.)
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