Happy Summer Everyone!
It has been 16 months since my bone marrow stem-cell
transplant, and chemo/radiation therapies.
I am doing well, still in remission, and continuing to improve physically.
I wonder sometimes if I will ever be where I was before leukemia. Then, I think
about all of the medication that I am taking and what an impact they have on my
day to day condition. I am getting stronger and my stamina continues to
improve. Immune suppressant drugs are
keeping me in a vulnerable state; My hope is that my doctor is able to wean me
off of them in the near future.
I am so grateful for the strides that have been made in
leukemia research and for the quality of treatment that I received. Being
diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia and not having a good prognosis, I
consider myself very blessed to be here today.
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) is committed
to funding research to help cure patients with leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma and
related malignancies and improve their quality of life. When LLS was founded in 1949, a blood cancer
diagnosis was almost always fatal. Thanks in part to innovative research funded
by LLS, survival rates have doubled, tripled and even quadrupled for blood
cancer patients!
“Team GG” will be participating in The
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Light The Night® Walk in September
for a second year. Money raised for this
walk, funds therapies and treatment for advances for blood cancer patients.
Your contributions will be helping to save lives. In fiscal year 2011, LLS invested more than
$76 million in blood cancer research.
I am asking you to please consider making a donation to
our team. If it wasn't for the generous
donations of past donors that have helped fight blood cancer and improve the
lives of blood cancer patients, I might not be here today. So many of you were
so generous last year and helped us reach our fund raising goal.
Please consider making a tax deductible donation to the
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Your generosity may help lead to the cure we all
pray for.
Thank you and God Bless,
~ GG (Team GG)
