Hello All!
Thanks to all those that donated to my walk. It was an awesome event. Very emotional and I would up with a nasty headache from crying so much but I would not have changed anything!
I was able to complete the 3 miles!!! It was all I could do since in the last 13 months I have not had much activity due to my meningitis but I was able to complete it and it hurt like hell but was fabulous!!!
Hugs to All
Gene
Posted on Sunday, September 12th, 2010
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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.
For more information about The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society please go to http://lls.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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Go Gene Go!!!!
Hello all,
I am doing mostly bettter hoping to get this recovery out of the way! I want to get my normal life back!!
I am attaching a picture of me doing my 2nd marathon in October of last year in my purple rasta wig!!! Go Team!!!
Posted on Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
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I just came acrossed this picture of me doing my first marathon! Don’t I look fabulous!!! LOL
I have done both of my marathons for Team in Training.
Posted on Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
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Hello All,
It has been a long time since I posted!! Over a month!!
It has been an emotional month. On July 10th I found out one of the 2 people I had completed my 2 Team in Training Marathons for died. He was only 8 years old and had spent the last 2 years fighting Lymphoma. It was a very large blow to me. I spent over a week bursting into tears. Was a very difficult time. About the time I was dealing better with that I started not feeling well.
Continued in Part 2……
Posted on Friday, August 21st, 2009
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