FiveEightNine

My U.S. educated grandfather was sent to an education camp during the Cultural Revolution. For two years he wrote to my grandmother until one day the letters stopped coming. My grandma went around to all the offices to try and get an answer, but no word. One official told her he probably committed suicide because he couldn't bear the guilt of betraying his country. No body, no information, no account of what happened. To this day we don't know what happened.

You are so awesome for doing this! I signed up with the registry back in college, and ended up holding a few donor drives with my Asian interest sorority to increase awareness among the Asian American communities. Minorities are seriously underrepresented in the registry, unfortunately.

For my actual questions - how long was the time between finding out you were a match to actually doing the procedure? Is it sort of ASAP? Also, do you get any information about your match, or is that strictly anonymous on both ends?