Help Carry the Light of Hope
last year at the Stockyards
Welcome to my Light The Night Walk home page.
The Light The Night Walk is The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's nationwide evening walk to raise awareness and
funds to cure leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.
I'm participating in the Walk in honor of Alaina Enlow and all the children at Cook Children's Medical Center fighting blood diseases. Alaina was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) in June 2000. She was 15 years old. In the course of 2 1/2 year she relapsed twice, went into remission three times and had two transplants.She had a bone marrow transplant after her first remission. After a year she relapsed again and had a stem cell transplant. After about a year Alaina lost her battle. If not for the LLS and the research they provide, Alaina would not have had the chance to graduate from high school,travel coast to coast and to Italy or to persue her passion of photography.Kids like her are
the real heroes and we need your support to help accelerate cures and hope for patients and their families.
Although research is responsible for increasing survival rates for these diseases, the battle is far from over.
Did you know that:
- Every five minutes, someone in this country is diagnosed with blood cancer.
Every nine minutes, someone dies.
- Leukemia is the leading cause of disease-related death among children under age 15.
- Lymphomas are the most common blood cancers.
- The myeloma survival rate is only 30 percent.
Please make a donation to support my participation in the Light The Night Walk. By doing so,
we’ll both be helping save lives. I hope you'll visit my web site often. Be sure to check back frequently to
see my progress. Thanks for your support!
To join us on the walk, go to the home page and register. Go to the Ft Worth chapter and scroll down the team names until you get to Cook Children's Children or look up my name under team captain.
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