So others can run

Almost a year ago a sequence of events began to unfold that would change my life forever.... On January 13th I received a phone call saying that I had Acute Myeloid Leukemia. The next day I was in the hospital. Over the next 6 months I spent 62 days in the hospital, 7 days in the intensive care, spent 3 days intubated, had 2 pericardial effusions, one requiring to be drained.

And I am the lucky one.

In all likelihood I will stay in remission and my cancer will never return. I have my life back. I can do everything that I did on January 12th. And that is something so many people who get the same news I got can never say.
Let me share some sobering numbers with you. In one year, about 12000 people in the United States will be diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia –and of those 12000 people 75% will be dead in the next 5 years.

That is how lucky I am.

Knowing that, I am sure you can understand why I have to do this. I need to do something to repay the debt of good fortune that I have received.

One of those things I have chosen to do is to raise money for the Leukemia Lymphoma Society by competing in a Triathelon in Columbia MD on May 22nd. Through the LLS and this event I can help fund the vital research that will help all people with blood cancers be cured and be able to enjoy a normal life -like I can.

Over the last year I have learned more about life love and friendship than I did in all my life before I got sick. You all have been such a pillar of strength to me throughout this ordeal. You lifted my spirits when they needed lifting. You provided laughter when I needed it. You brought me food so I wouldn’t have to eat hospital food. You brought me gifts, sent cards, decorated my rooms… and for that I am so unbelievably grateful…

Now I need your help once more… Please donate, to help others be as lucky as I am now. So that they can also run in a triathelon too.


Thank You