Dallas resident Campbell Fearing, who’s a server at Lovers Seafood and Market close to Dallas Love Area, is preventing an aggressive type of leukemia and is in want of a life-saving blood stem cell donor.
A donor drive is being hosted from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 22 at Lovers Seafood, 5200 W. Lovers Lane in Dallas. Attendees between the ages of 18 and 55 who’re in good well being and excited about being a donor can have their cheek swabbed to see in the event that they’re a match.
It’s a simple and quick procedure Fearing’s mother Lynae Fearing calls “simpler than doing a COVID check.”
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/dmn/AZPBJ3BPVZHMFNAYVVCGY3XNJ4.jpg)
And it might be very important for Campbell Fearing, who’s at the moment dwelling in a hospital and present process his second spherical of chemotherapy. His survival possibilities aren’t as excessive if he doesn’t get a blood stem cell transplant, also referred to as a bone marrow transplant.
About 15,000 folks within the U.S are searching for a donor, says Amy Roseman, donor recruiter for DKMS, a nonprofit bone marrow donor middle. Sunday’s donor drive is searching for a match for any affected person, not simply Campbell.
Fearing comes from a well known Dallas restaurant household. His mother co-owns Lovers Seafood, Shinsei and Dea, all close to Lovers Lane and Inwood Street in Dallas. His father is Dean Fearing, one in every of Dallas’ best-known cooks who previously labored on the Mansion and is founding father of Fearing’s on the Ritz-Carlton.
Campbell is a biblical research main at Dallas Baptist College.
Throughout one in every of Campbell’s shifts at Lovers Seafood the week earlier than Thanksgiving, Lynae seen her son’s gums have been unusually swollen. A dentist advised he get blood work accomplished — “thank God,” Lynae says.
Campbell was within the hospital the Saturday after Thanksgiving and has been preventing acute myeloid leukemia ever since.
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/dmn/BPNSLAHWR7G6UE3MJCJANQBBUQ.jpg)
About 70% of individuals with blood-related ailments want a donor exterior of their relations, in accordance with DKMS. All the Fearings’ relations have been examined, however none are a 100% match. If a donor is discovered from Sunday’s occasion, the donor ultimately could be given photographs to overproduce blood stem cells. The donor just isn’t anticipated to should bear surgical procedure, because the blood stem cells will be collected by a several-hour blood draw.
It’s just like donating platelets or plasma, Roseman says.
“It’s utterly voluntary,” she notes. “However it’s vital to grasp, there’s a life on the opposite finish.”
As Campbell turns 23 years outdated this week, his sickness has stored him within the hospital extra days than not since Thanksgiving. He’s skilled bouts of discomfort, together with nausea from chemo and extreme complications after a current spinal faucet.
Lynae says “everyone is de facto constructive” {that a} match might be discovered on the donation occasion.
Donor drive for Campbell Fearing
A donor drive is 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 22, 2023 at Lovers Seafood and Market in Dallas. The restaurant may have reside music and drinks. DKMS will carry out cheek swabs on anybody in good well being between the ages of 18 and 55. If Campbell Fearing is effectively sufficient, he could attend the occasion and thank individuals.
Register or study extra in regards to the donation course of at dkms.org/campbellfearing.
