A Chinese-American girl takes a selfie video online to ask for help for bone marrow

A Chinese-American girl takes a selfie video online to ask for help for bone marrow (reprinted from Weiming Space) Editor's note: Liang Zhenna, a 25-year-old Chinese American girl from East Bay, suffering from leukemia, is struggling to find a solution...

(Reprinted from Weiming Space)

Editor's note: A 25-year-old Chinese girl from East Bay, USA, suffering from leukemia, was unable to find a bone marrow donor. Last week, she posted a selfie video online asking for help, and asked the Chinese community to register as a donation candidate. In the short video, Liang burst into tears. In less than a week, the video accumulated nearly 300,000 views, and more than 2,500 netizens left messages to cheer her on. Janet Liang, who lives in Pleasanton, East Bay, has been helping to find suitable bone marrow donors through community organizations since she was diagnosed with leukemia in 2009. She also regularly shares her condition with friends online. The most recent video she uploaded aroused widespread response. Asking for help in the video: "I'm so afraid of death." In the video, Liang Zhenna looked very haggard. She cried sadly in the hospital bed and said, "I just want to say that I am so afraid of death. I feel like my days are running out. I understand that I will be afraid of death, mainly because I am afraid of leaving this. I don't know if I will find a suitable donor in time or if the transplant will be successful. I may die of complications. There are many reasons for death." In the video, Liang Zhenna also made a special appeal to the Chinese community, asking Chinese people to register as donation candidates or help her find possible donors. She pointed out that her life may only be until April. Before then, she will use her time to do things she likes or things she has not done yet. In the more than 3-minute video, Liang Zhenna, who was wearing a woolen hat and having an intravenous drip on her hand, never stopped crying. However, at the end of the video, she still managed to smile and thank everyone for their support. She also said that she was still optimistic in her heart. It was just the day of filming the short film that she felt really sad. The video uploaded by Liang Zhenna accumulated nearly 300,000 views in a single week, and more than 2,500 netizens also left messages to cheer her up. Some even reposted the video to social networking sites or other video sites for sharing.

The younger brother planned to save his sister, but the bone marrow was not compatible. In August 2009, Janet Leung was diagnosed with leukemia. She originally hoped to accept the bone marrow donated by her younger brother who was studying at UC Davis for a transplant. However, the test report came out in October and found that the physiological conditions of the two were incompatible and they could not be transplanted. That month, Janet Leung told her friends in a video about her condition. She in the video at that time seemed very different from her current condition. Liang Zhenna attended the University of California in Los Angeles before she was diagnosed with hemorrhage cancer, and she aspired to work in education after graduation. For ethnic minority blood cancer patients like Jenny Leung, the chance of finding a suitable donor in the United States is only about one in 10,000. Donors usually appear in people of the same ethnic group. Currently, the rate of Asians in the United States registering as donor candidates is only about 7%.