Light the Night!!!!

Hello Friends and Family,
I am doing well. As most of you know I have been fighting Viral Meningitis for the last 13 months. It has been an adventure!! As of Sept 1st I have been ungrounded cautiosly by the Doctor. He said that I need to be careful not to set off a major event as it could cause me to back slide. So I am going forth. I will let all of you know how my job search and recover continue to go!
 
As some of you know I had 2 very special people in my life. Thier names are Bill Gill and Bryant Ante.
 
Bryant was an amazing 8 year old that battled Lymphoma for 2 years before he unfortunately lost his battle and passed way July of 2009. He will be missed by all who knew him.
 
Bill was a truely awe inspiring 80 year old that managed to turn a 4 month diagnosis of Luekemia into almost 10 years!!!! Bill passed away May of this year.
 
In memory of these 2 amazing people myself and the boys will be participating in the Luekemia and Lymphoma Society Light the night walk this Saturday September 11th in Anchorage. Each of the 3 of us have a goal of raising $100.00 to help fight blood cancers and help current surviors of blood cancers have a better quality of life!! If you can make a donation of any size towards our goals we would really appieciate it!! Thanks!!
 
We are on the Team Bill Says: in honor of Bill and his continuing legacy of Bill says signs that are posted on the different Team in Training marathon corses to help give the participants a boost on thier big day of completing a truely life changing event in thier life. Only 3 percent of the US population and 1% of the world population will ever complete a marathon in thier lifetime.
 
 
Here is some of the things that the donations go towards:
  • A donation of $25 provides patients and their loved ones with FREE booklets that contain up-to-date information on their disease and help them make informed decisions about their treatment options.
  • A donation of $50 makes possible a Family Support group with a trained facilitator where comfort can be found and experiences can be shared among patients and family members.
  • A donation of $100 helps supply laboratory researchers with supplies and materials critical to carrying out their search for cures.
  • A donation of $1,000 makes possible one- on-one conversations with health care specialists who provide patients with information about their disease, treatment options, and helps prepare them with questions for their health care team.
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    For more information about The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society please go to http://lls.org/
     
    For more information about Team in Training please go to http://www.teamintraining.org/
     
     
    Donations are taken below at the secure webpages each of us have our own webpage for donations.
     
    Here are the links to our pages. Any amount donated will go a long way to helping those people that are currently fighting blood cancers.
     
     
     
     
    Sorry for the short notice, with my Meningitis it has been hard to predict what I will be able to do in the future. That should be behind me now!!!
     
    Hugs,
     
    Gene Looman

    Posted on Tuesday, September 7th, 2010
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