Your support means a lot...to me and to thousands of others.
FINAL PRE-WALK UPDATE 9/4/07:
As of today, I have raised approximately 50% of my $1000 goal, so I still need your help! If you've been considering a gift but haven't yet, please do so. Any contribution, great or small, is really appreciated. There's only 11 days left to the walk! Thank you to everyone who has already made a donation. You guys are all really super :)
UPDATE 8/20/07:
As of right now, I am drastically short of reaching my fundraising goal and I need your help! There is less than 1 month left to the walk.
I will be walking in honor of two people:
John Tyner is a friend from Kiwanis (he is a member of the Rockville, MD club) who is a lymphoma survivor!
Maria Turner is a relative of a co-worker who is battling lymphoma for the second time. She is the mother of three young girls, and is struggling with both the physical limitations of her condition, as well as a great deal of emotional stress.
Please keep both John and Maria in your prayers, and in mind on September 15th when they are honored at the Walk.
ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
Thanks for visiting my Light The Night homepage. The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Light The Night Walk is the nation's night to pay tribute and bring hope to thousands of patients battling blood cancers and to commemorate loved ones lost.
The Society funds lifesaving cancer research that has contributed to major advances in the treatment of blood cancers and many other types of cancer treatments such as chemotherapy and stem cell transplants that have prolonged and enhanced the lives of patients. New targeted therapies that kill cancer cells without harming normal tissue have already begun to provide drugs and procedures that are improving quality of life.
But more research is critically needed:
- Every five minutes someone is diagnosed with blood cancer. Every ten minutes, someone dies.
- Leukemia causes more deaths among children than any other cancer
- More than 20,000 Americans died from lymphoma in 2006
- The survival rate for myeloma is just 33 per cent
Please make a donation to support my Light The Night Walk and help save lives. Be sure to check my Web site frequently to see my progress, and again, thanks for your support!
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