It’s been a year and a half since Mia Stoutenborough, a water polo, tennis and swimming athlete at Newbury Park High School, began having seizures. Last January, Mia was diagnosed with a rare type of bone marrow failure that prevents bone marrow from producing enough red and white blood cells and platelets called Aplastic Anemia.
Since her diagnosis, she undergoes weekly blood cell and platelet transfusions to stay alive. Mia is not seeing results and must receive a bone marrow transplant.
In light of her medical needs, the bone marrow drive will be from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sat., April 24 at the pre-race packet pickup event for the fourth annual Gator Run at Simi Valley Town Center.
The Simi Sunset Rotary Club’s Gator Run is at 7:30 a.m. Sun., April 25 at Rancho Santa Susana Community Park.
For more information, visit www.gatorrun.org.
For more about Mia, visit www.caringbridge.org/visit/mias.
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