![]() #cancerawareness #cancersupport #cancercommunity #cancerfundraiser #cancercharity #cancelbloodcancer ![]() Thanks so much to you all, and a great wave of love and gratitude, for you and your causes, and your persistent open ears and minds. If you can help, in any dollar amount, it would give every step each of us takes as we ascend the mountain trail that much more weight-knowing that as we summit, that much more will be committed to the cause. My hike in June, and the fundraiser that's preceded it, are my own small ways of responding to the last year and a half of my life to reinvest in a community that welcomed my wife and I with gracious open arms to contribute somehow to the swell of action to reconcile with this incredible burden on humankind. Both the onset, the experience, and its never-ending aftermath are far too profound and affecting-and almost any of those caught up in its orbit would say they pray no one that's remained uninitiated ever has to endure it. Nothing I say in this post can appropriately capture the effect a journey like this has on a patient, a warrior, a survivor, or their network of support and care. Overnight, we were relieved of our life as we knew it, or even planned on it, and were set instead on a path that we never could've fathomed we'd walk. Like almost all who experience these circumstances, our life was rocked dramatically and it has never been, and never will be, the same. Luke's Hospital in Denver where she'd be a patient at the Colorado Blood Cancer Institute. ![]() Her status was critical-her bone marrow a whopping 98% cancer-and she was airlifted from our small town in Southwestern Colorado to Presbyterian St. The diagnosis came suddenly and with no warning, as cancer diagnoses often do. In December 2021, my wife, Anna, was one of them. I'll be one of many fundraising teams that spent these last few months raising money to help fund critical research and development for the treatment and cure of #bloodcancer.Įvery 3 minutes someone is diagnosed with leukemia, lymphoma, or myeloma. ![]() This summer, I'm hiking to the top of Hallett Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park as part of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's #TeamInTraining. I know you might be sick of hearing it #linkedinfamily but I need your help. ![]()
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