Hartland Teacher Organizes Bone Marrow Drive
Frank Shinkonis has organized a Be the Match event scheduled for March 23 at Hartland High School.
After his son was born with complications last May, Hartland High School teacher Frank Shinkonis stepped off the elevator and onto the wrong floor at Mott’s Children’s Hospital, where he encountered a young child with cancer. Although it wasn’t the first time, Shinkonis says the impact of seeing that child at that moment made him feel angry and helpless. “I just felt so bad I couldn’t help him,” he said. “I don’t know if it’s because your so full emotion after a child’s born.” Three days later, at home with his healthy son, the history teacher said by coincidence, he saw a news story where a bone marrow transplant helped saved a little girl’s life and he realized that he wasn’t helpless and started to take action. On March 23, a Be the …
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