28 May is World Blood Cancer Day, a global day of awareness dedicated to the fight against blood cancer. Every 35 seconds, someone around the world is diagnosed with blood cancer. DKMS created World Blood Cancer Day as an independent awareness day in 2014 to show that we are all in this together for our common goal – to provide a matching donor for every blood cancer patient in need of a blood stem cell donation. This World Cancer Day, my friend Ruby is in hospital - missing her children desperately - awaiting her life-saving stem cell donation on 2nd June. Donor recipients call this her 'second birthday' - the day she gets that amazing gift of life. Ruby's donor isn't a cord blood donation (if they had been then there wouldn't have been the delays she's had to go through) but cord blood could give that amazing gift to the thousands of others across the world searching... IF people are given the chance to donate! That's why I'm asking you all to mark this World Blood Cancer Day by sharing this petition with your networks and giving them a nudge to register as adult stem cell donors... it's an immediate, painless way to show support and potentially become a life saver at: https://www.anthonynolan.org/8-ways-you-could-save-life/donate-your-stem-cells (Between 16 and 30 years old). https://www.dkms.org.uk/en/register-now#main (If under 55 years old). International friends can check out http://www.registerforruby.com/ where we have a page of links for organisations in other countries. A great way of spreading the message is to share with any Facebook groups that you are a member of or directly tagging/e-mailing people who you think might be interested. Ruby continues to write about her experiences on her Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/Rubiola79/posts/10155282461321753) and I know she appreciates all your good thoughts and support. Getting a stem cell donation isn't the end of the story - there's still a lot of risk and hard work to come. Above is a link to the DKMS site which highlights the individuals and families out here still searching... children and adults, all ages and backgrounds... we can work together to find their miracles.