Urgent Call for Donors

Posted by John Lockwood on April 11th, 2007

A call for help is going out in greater Sacramento for a Cameron Park baby who is in need of a bone marrow transplant to save his life. 

Trevor Austin Kott (a 6-month old Cameron Park baby) has been battling congenital acute myeloid leukemia or AML since his birth last October. This rare disease affects blood cells in the bone marrow. He is undergoing a fifth round of chemotherapy in his fight to beat a deadly disease.

Trevor is critically ill and needs a marrow transplant to survive. His life depends on finding a match immediately. Doctors say he has about 6-8 weeks to live unless a match can be found. So far  there hasn’t been a match.

BloodSource is coordinating a number of bone marrow match drives over the next few weeks. Trevor’s family hopes that one of these drives will find the one match to save him. A list of days and times for the bone marrow drives to benefit Trevor can be found at this link: http://www.news10.net/display_story.aspx?storyid=26100

There will be a drive in Cameron Park on Saturday, April 14 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Blue Oak School, 2391 Merrychase Drive. 

Potential bone marrow donors must be between the ages of 18 and 60, and in general good health. The test only requires a swab from the inside of your cheek with a Q-tip. The test costs $52 and is tax deductible. The fee goes to the National Marrow Donor Program. The program maintains a registry of bone marrow donors which doctors use to find possible donors for other patients.

The following links have more information on the plight of this infant.
http://www.news10.net/video/player_news10.aspx?sid=26100&aid=37806
http://www.news10.net/video/player_news10.aspx?sid=26347&aid=38037
http://home.comcast.net/~trevorkottinformation/Help_Trevor.rtf and http://www.trevorkott.com/index.html