Mid Life Crisis Challenge 1

I watched a report this morning on Bone Marrow donors on BBC breakfast, which really made me well up & I decided that was going to be challenge number 1, Im terrified of needles and have really weird veins making it traumatic and painful for me to even have a simple blood test, but the short burst of pain is nothing compared to the pain a parent is enduring watching their sick child in pain or dieing and In need of blood or bone marrow.. I have just registered also to donate organs after I die, but this is something I can do now and maybe help save a life. After just going through a painful and emotional hospital visit with my 13 year old son, having an MRI scan to see if he had a brain tumour, this was I think to date the worst day of my life, sat there in the consultants waiting room waiting to hear those words that would change my life forever, either way, if it was bad news it would have been the worst news and if it was good it was sure as hell going to make me evaluate my life and that of my family and not take it for granted any more and enjoy the time we have together, after all we are all dieing, we don't know when its going to happen and how that's all. So I have contacted the relevant people today & IM booked in for giving blood and to be tested for a match for the Bone Marrow register on Wednesday...