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| Brian Kinion's Fundraising Page |
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My friend Brenda Donato (July 6, 1970 - April 14, 2007) |
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| The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS) is the world’s largest voluntary health organization dedicated to funding blood cancer research and providing education and patient services. Their mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkins’s disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families. I have been involved with the LLS Team In Training (TNT) program since 2002 and have run 6 marathons and 12 half marathons in honor and memory of those with blood cancers while fundraising multiple seasons.
I have been nominated as a candidate for the LLS Man of the Year for the Greater Bay Area by some of my TNT teammates. I am very excited about this honor and truly feel this is a great opportunity to make a difference in the lives of people affected by leukemia, lymphoma and blood cancers in our community. I ask that you join me by making a contribution to my fundraising campaign. Each dollar I raise counts as one vote and the candidate who gets the most donations is named our local Man of the Year. I am raising money in honor of my late friend Brenda Donato who passed away April 14, 2007 after a two year battle with AML. Brenda was only 36, the loving mother of two boys ages 10 and 8 and was a huge part of our TNT family. She was an amazing lady who was so strong, so positive and was a true inspiration to so many. She was diagnosed with AML in early 2005 and got a stem cell transplant. She bounced back from that and with a vengeance she set out and ran a half marathon in October 2005, ran a marathon in January 2006 and did the Wildflower Triathlon in May 2006. She was planning to do the Anchorage Half Marathon in June 2006 when she relapsed. This time she needed a bone marrow transplant and they found a match. She got the transplant and soon after developed graft vs. host disease. Over time her lung capacity diminished to less than 20% and the doctors could not reverse the damage. Ultimately it wasn’t cancer that killed her but complications of the transplant. I knew Brenda before she was diagnosed with AML and she was an athletic and fit person. I watched her go from someone who could do endurance events to someone who could barely breathe. In her honor, I will do whatever I can to raise funds to find a cure for this horrible disease.
Whatever you contribute matters – it all adds up! Your contributions will fund research and other important programs to help find a cure for cancer.
I just want to thank you for anything you can do to help this truly worthy cause.
With sincere thanks and appreciation,
Brian Kinion |
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Total Donations Collected:$39,780.00
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| Goal: $50,000 |
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