Crazy Ken's Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Team Page
Racing to Save Lives
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Help me fight this war against Blood Cancer.
Hi I am Ken,
.In the spirit of thanksgiving, please help those battling blood cancers by making your year-end donation today, before your holiday shopping begins
TODAY, THROUGH THE WORK OF THE SOCIETY AND YOUR DONATIONS, 712,000 AMERICANS THAT WOULD UNDOUBTEDLY HAVE DIED IN THE PAST ARE SURVIVING!
Now let me tell you why I have been raising money for the LLS.org for the last 3 years running the Disney Marathon (That is 26.2 Miles). The first year I joined Team in Training was in 2005 to raise money by running the 26.2 run. It was because my sister Karan called me and let me know she had Leukemia, I did not know what to do to help; I tried to become a donor but was not able to, then I learned about Team In Training (TNT) and how they raise money to help people with leukemia and the research to fined a cure, then I joined. And it was painful but with the help of the coaches I made it. Then the second year I was not going to do it again but Karan had a fall back, so I jump on a flight back home to see her on 17 June 2006 and she ask me if I was going to do it again. I promised I would and 10 hours later she died. She finally got to see me run with all the angels in heaven. They must have had a good laugh a 243 lb man running 26.2 miles, but I made it again this time with the help of my cousin Carla and her daughter two angels from Michigan. Again the pain I made it and we raised $3000.00 with the help allot of people giving what ever they could. This year I again found myself with a work schedule that would not let me run it, so I (said will I can’t). Then one night while I was running I was thinking about Karan and I thought I heard something, it was like god was talking to me. It said Karan is gone, But what about the others? All the others out there with blood cancer are you going to not do something for them, what about the little kids. So I called my manager and he told me we would work it out so I could have the time off to run for the others and that is why I am asking for your help that others may live.
Please make a donation to support my participation in Team In Training and help advance the Society's mission.
$1,000 Will help The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society fund a researcher to find a cure.
$500 Will provide patient aid to a person with leukemia or a related cancer for a year.
$100 Will provide a patient with transportation cost associated with traveling from home to the cancer center.
$75 Will provide bone morrow typing for a family member of a patient with leukemia.
$50 Will register one person to be a bone marrow donor.
$25 Will pay for the cost of a patient’s chemotherapy drug prescription co-pay.
Any donation will help continue the research needed to find a cure.
Where would our world be without people whose impossible dreams coax the best not only from themselves, but from the rest of us as well?
In 1895, Lord Kelvin William Thomson, a British mathematician, physicist and president of the British Royal Society, said: "Radio has no future. Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. X-rays will prove to be a hoax. (And) there is nothing new to be discovered in physics." We are thankful the impossible dreamers of his time didn't believe him. The great technological progress of the 20th century was built on impossible dreams.Rocket pioneer Robert Goddard was experimenting with his science as early as 1907, just four years after the Wright brothers' first flight at Kitty Hawk.
Goddard said: "It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dreams of yesterday are the hopes of today, and the realities of tomorrow."
Our dreams alone, of course, are not enough. We need to grab hold of our ideas and work hard on them if they are to come true. More often than not in life the height of our success is determined by the depth of our commitment.
Look at this web page if you want to see that dreams can and do come true. It is not if we find a cure it is when!t
www.news-medical.net/?id=29091
I hope you'll visit my web site often. Be sure to check back frequently to see my progress. Thanks for your support!
