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Our thanks to the many sponsors who supported our Blogging for Blood Cancer awareness event! Thank you for helping us to make a difference!
Welcome to the the eight and final day of Blogging For Blood Cancer. Today’s Prize is It’s a Glam Thing beauty gift basket (value=$175) courtesy of It’s a Glam Thing.
To qualify to win, leave a comment with an answer to the question after reading the post.
The week of Blogging for Blood Cancer has come to end, but that does not mean that we at FOH will stop blogging for blood cancer and we hope you will continue to come back and check for updates. Thank you to all who have participated and thank you to our very own Lois of Goodies for mom for all the hard work she put into this and all the great prizes. We would also like to thank The Blue Top Hat, The greeting cookie, Susan Murphay inc., Stakersensations,Pretty Posh Princess,Circle of Sentiments,Lucky Girl Trading Company,Mimsi Bags,Its a Glam thing, and Sampsonite for the donation of all the great prizes.
This has been a great week. We have had many great post. If you didn’t get a chance to read them you should check them out.
Monday:Welcome to the Blogging for Blood Cancer Event
Tuesday:Light The Night for Blood Cancers
Wednesday:Every Dollar Counts Toward a Cure!
Thursday:FOH and Their Affliates – Partners in Eradicating Pediatric Blood Cancer
Friday:Our Fifth Season as a Team
Saturday:Pediatric Cancer Research – Why Is It Important?
Sunday:A Beautiful Future of Life Lived; Not A Life Lost
For more information about joining your Local Friends Of Heroes Light the night team, please visit www.lightthenight.organd search by your zip code then click join a team and click friends of Heroes. If you already have a team and are interested in becoming and affiliate, please email Carole. Thank you for making our first Blogging For Blood Caner such a great event.
You’ll also be entered for our grand prize to be drawn Monday for a $900 Timberland and Lacoste product assortment, courtesy of Samsonite. (Comments are moderated.)
Welcome to Day 7 of the Blogging for Blood Cancer event! Today’s prize is a Fused glass pendant from Lucky Girl Trading Company & Tess shopping bag (value=$20.00) courtesy of Mimsi Bags. Yesterday’s winner was Commenter #10 Tracey Byram who knew Donnall Thomas, M.D. was the first scientist to successfully perform a bone marrow transplant between two humans.
By Sean Haines
Where do I begin?…This past July marked exactly three and a half years since I lost my 8 year old son, Matthew, to cancer…He will forever be 8 years old in my mind, but his younger brother, Chris, likes to think of his older brother forever being his ‘older’ brother and celebrates Matthew’s birthday each year by putting one additional candle on Matt’s birthday cake…I guess it’s easier for him to handle the loss this way….He needs to feel he will have his older brother, the one who taught him so much while here on Earth, waiting to help guide and protect him once more when he rejoins him in Heaven.
The twins, who we found out we were having seven months after Matthew’s passing (just as Matthew told us we would), have truly helped to bring joy and happiness back into our lives once more…With the devastating loss of our eldest son, we lived our lives ‘on hold’ until this rambunctious, laughing and full of mischief duo blessed us with their zest for life…their passion for living…their wonderment at it all…They enabled us the ability to smile again…to be able to see the goodness in God’s creation once more…to be able to be blessedly patient until being reunited with our little man…They helped show us we need to do what we can to make a difference in this world…for them….for their older brother; Chris…and for all the precious children currently suffering from this horrible disease.
This is why I established the Matthew David Haines Foundation and why I work hand in hand with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Together, we make a huge, positive impact in the betterment of these children’s lives…in their lives as well as their entire families’. The dedication shown by the LLS staff and the research, education and patient services they provide has helped countless needy families such as my own and have brought a cure to blood cancers much closer to a reality than merely a desperate dream prayed for by every suffering patient and their devoted families.
The support I have received by the LLS and the staff members, who are more like extended family members, have helped me to see there is hope for the future…And with everyone’s continued dedication to the same goal of eradicating blood cancers…that beautiful future of a life lived and not a life lost becomes closer and brighter each and every day…God Bless everyone who is helping to ‘fight the good fight’….I appreciate and love you all…
Take care and God Bless,
Sean Haines
www.matthewhaines.info
For a chance to win just leave a comment, to Sean by MIDNIGHT PST Monday, August 18, 2008.
You’ll also be entered for our grand prize to be drawn Monday for a $900 Timberland and Lacoste product assortment, courtesy of Samsonite. (Comments are moderated.) Make sure to stop back for more information and even more chances to win!
Welcome to Day 6 of the Blogging for Blood Cancer event! Today’s prize is a Princess purse and ribbon tutu from Pretty Posh Princess. Yesterday’s winner was commenter #9 Denise who knew there were 600 members of Friends of Heroes in 2007.
To qualify to win, leave a comment with an answer to the question after reading the post.
Why is pediatric research so important?
In 1960-63, when compared to a person without leukemia, a patient had a 14 percent chance of living five years. By 1975-77, the five-year relative survival rate had jumped to 35 percent. By 2002, the survival rates have increased dramatically large impart due to the wonderful research conducted by The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and other organizations like them.
Even though these survival rates have significantly improved, until there is early detection, a method of prevention, and a cure for blood cancers, research is still desperately needed. Anything less than 100% survival rate just is not good enough, especially when you are talking about someone’s child.
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[Hint, hint, hint: You will find the answer in this post. Wink, wink.]
You’ll also be entered for our grand prize to be drawn Monday for a $900 Timberland and Lacoste product assortment, courtesy of Samsonite. (Comments are moderated.) Make sure to stop back for more information and even more chances to win!
Thank you for stopping by day 5 of Blogging for Blood Cancer. Today’s prize is 5 sets of vinyl wall decals (value=$48.00) courtesy of Stakersensations. Yesterday’s winner was commenter # 25 – Nikki! She knew that FOH and its Affiliate teams have raised over $958,241 in four seasons!
To qualify to win, leave a comment with an answer to the question after reading the post.
Five years ago, we all started because of a blue eyed baby girl named Allie. Five years later we are still here and going strong, in fact each year we grow stronger. Friends of Heroes has become a big part of each of our lives, and we are still making a huge difference each year. Five years from now we all share the same hope that there will be no need for us, because we will have a cure.
Friends of Heroes, formerly Friends of Allie and Allie’s Angels, is the largest national Friends and Family Light The Night team in The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s history. The team was originally created to honor Allie Scott, an 8 month old baby from Allen, TX who passed away from acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in September 2004. You can read more about the inspiration for Friends of Heroes (here).
Since then, Friends of Heroes has grown dramatically in both size and focus. The team not only retains a core group of over 600 registered walkers, but also welcomes several affiliate teams across the country. In the 2007 Light The Night season, Friends of Heroes had a team presence at 60 walksites and raised a $114,000 dollars in the fight against blood cancers.
Friends of Heroes and affiliates actively fundraise for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, with a passion and focus towards eradicating pediatric blood cancers. We strive to incorporate honored children at each walksite – local children who are either currently undergoing treatment or in remission from any blood cancer.
The Friends of Heroes Light The Night team is overseen by national team leaders, volunteers who oversee fundraising and team organization, as well as a Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Friends and Family national manager. We always welcome new volunteers, and encourage you to contact any of the team leaders for more information on how to get involved in our mission.
Our Mission Statement
As Friends of Heroes, we are a volunteer organization whose purpose is:
Five years later…………………
Reflecting back over my years with Friends of Heroes and doing the Light the Night walks my first thought goes to the children and their families. How their world must have been turned upside down to find out that someone they loved was diagnosed with Leukemia/Lymphoma. My second thought goes to what if that would happen to my son or daughter wouldn’t I hope that people would do the same as I’m doing which is VOLUNTEERING my time to make the difference in someone else’s life.
If you’ve never walked in the Light the Night before let me tell you it’s a wonderful experience and you should really consider doing one. It’s a night that people get together to honor and remember those who have or are battling this awful disease. Seeing the crowds of people and the balloons flickering as the sun goes down and at our walk in St. Louis we see the sidewalk towards of the end of the walk we see candles inside bags lining the walkway of the people we just walked in honor or in memory of. It’s an experience that keeps bringing me back year after year.
Kathie Team Captain relations
“Friends of Heroes is a part of my life. After meeting several cancer heroes, it makes me want to work HARDER to find a cure. I really hope that in 5 years, Friends of Heroes will not be here, BECAUSE there is a cure for blood cancers!”
Beck Social Networks Coordinator
Why am I still walking five years later…Because mother’s are still losing their children to this horrible disease. No child should have to fight for their lives. They should be enjoying being a child. No mother should have to watch as their child suffers from this devastating disease wondering if they will make it to their next birthday. Until every child is cured or even better blood cancer is preventable, I still have a job to do and my job is to help raise funds and awareness for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and their critical mission. I hope you will all join me in this important fight.
Lois National Co-Captain
Five years later, I am still involved with Friends Of Heroes and Light the Night because, I truly believe that we will find a cure in my life time. These children are our future, and I want no other child to loose their life to this horrible disease. I believe that Friends of Heroes can and is making a huge difference in the fight against cancer. We will keep making a difference and I will always be involved in that until we have no more cancer to raise funds and awareness about and for.
Christy Blog
Hope. The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) provides hope to thousands of blood cancer patients each year because of research funded through events like Light The Night.
Five years ago, the five-year survival rate for children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, the most common childhood cancer, was only 55%. Today the five-year survival rate is 90.5%. Patients are living longer, better lives!
I am extremely hopeful that in another five years we will see incredible advancements toward a cure, but there is still so much work to be done! Acute myeloid leukemia is still around 50% survival. Those odds need to improve! Families shouldn’t have to lose their precious ones to this devastating disease.
“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.” – Denis Waitley
Please join us to make a difference!
Jenn National Co-Captain
Enter to win today’s prize
5 sets of vinyl wall decals (value=$48.00) courtesy of Stakersensations
How many registered walkers did FOH have in 2007? Hint: You will find the answer is in this post. Wink, wink.]
You’ll also be entered for our grand prize to be drawn Monday for a $900 Timberland and Lacoste product assortment, courtesy of Samsonite. (Comments are moderated.)
Make sure to stop back all week for more information and even more chances to win!
Thank you for stopping by! It’s Day 3 of the Blogging for Blood Cancer event! Today’s prizes include a Beautiful Handmade Soap set from 5-year-old Tasha and 5 pairs of assorted sterling silver earrings (valued at $25) from Designing-Diva. Yesterday’s winner was Commenter #2 – Carrie from PA. Click here to see what walk is closest to you and how you can join the Light The Night Friends of Heroes team.
To qualify to win, leave a comment with an answer to the question after reading the post.
So far we’ve blogged about the importance of blood cancer research and the Light The Night Walk. The one important component that ties these together is money.
Not only is the Light The Night walk an evening to honor blood cancer patients in the biggest battle of their lives, it is also to celebrate the teams of volunteers who fundraise to support blood cancer research and patient service. Funding is absolutely necessary for research to continue and this research will SAVE LIVES.
75 cents of every dollar spent goes directly towards supporting The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s mission of a cure. Society-funded research has led to key advances in understanding blood cancer and the life-saving drugs to fight them.
Fundraising does not have to be a chore! The local Light The Night Staff is trained to help teams raise money and has easy and free tools available. To get new walkers started, some fundraising ideas include:
For even more ideas, see all posts under the Fundraising category.
For an extra chance to win, leave another comment with an answer to this question:
Ends at MIDNIGHT PST today.
You’ll also be entered for our grand prize to be drawn Monday for a $900 Timberland and Lacoste product assortment, courtesy of Samsonite. (Comments are moderated.)
Make sure to stop back all week for more information and even more chances to win!
Source: LLS.org
Friends of Heroes is a national Light the Night Friends and Family team. We are comprised of moms, dads, families and friends compelled to help find a cure for blood cancers.
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