Be the Match, the national bone marrow donor program, was at the Clear Creek Commissary Saturday looking for people to register to be a bone marrow donor, in the hopes of finding a match for a Fort Hood youth fighting a rare form of leukemia and other children in desperate need for a bone marrow match.
In the midst of Februaryâs winter storm that blanketed Central Texas with snow and ice, 9-year-old Michael âMJâ Dixon was fighting a storm of his own, after being diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a rare form of childhood cancer in which the bone marrow cells develop errors in its DNA.