Japanese Teacher Seeks Bone Marrow Transplant
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Kazumi Schmidgall teaches math at a high school in Arizona. For years she was a Japanese teacher at Arizona Gakuen. She is asking Japanese and Japanese Americans to sign up at the bone marrow donor registry through bethematch.org.
By GWEN MURANAKA, Rafu Senior Editor
In September, Kazumi Schmidgall thought she had contracted COVID-19.
“I thought the symptoms were very much like COVID, so went to urgent care but turned out negative,” she explained in an interview with
The Rafu Shimpo.
Kazumi Schmidgall took her kids to Japan to visit the Byakue-Dai Kannon statue in Gunma Prefecture.