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ABOUT THE CAUSE
I read a lot of cancer survivor's treatment stories on
line, I just went back to work full time after my
treatment with AML and a bone marrow transplant. It has
been almost 8 long years (at 1 point having 6 months to
1 year to live) to get back to what some would call a
normal life or for someone like me that is about as
normal as it gets ! From diagnosed to divorced to
basically homeless and being my own care taker , my
words for life are "Don`t Ever Give Up ". I am on a
mission and you can help. I have organized a fund raiser
called "BAD TO THE BONE MARROW RIDE". It is a
motorcycle fund raiser that takes place on Bone Marrow
Transplant Survivors Day at The University of Texas M.
D. Anderson Cancer Center.
It is a Police escorted motorcycle ride with lots of
really cool give always and a concert after the ride.
It took me 2 years to talk the panel at M.D. Anderson
into doing this. Last years ride was great. This years
will be on Saturday June 7,2008. It is the only
motorcycle ride that take place on The University of
Texas M.D. Anderson property , and that is broadcast
into the hospital for all to see. This year I would like
to make the donor drive one of the largest in Texas
!!!!! We would like you to be a part of it.
On 1/28/2003 I received a matched unrelated donor aka;
MUD. This is the short version of the story !! I quit
counting the days in the hospital at 417 (since day 1 of
treatment) and had approx. 450 blood product
transfusions, been sliced and diced as I call it, hooked
up to a machine for 1 year, 13 CVC`s and a mini stroke,
hung out in ICU. The list goes on,,,, I would spend 3 to
5 days a week at the hospital whether you wanted to or
not . While I was at the hospital I ran into an other
motorcycle rider that was going through the transplant
process. I told him what I was trying to do ( had been
trying to talk the hospital into this for 2 years ).
Sooooooooooooo, with a little help from him and his wife
the "BAD TO THE BONE MARROW RIDE" was born. I must add
that upon my hospital travels I ran into Dr. Sam. If it
wasn't for Dr. Sam and the "RIDE FOR THE ROSE"
motorcycle ride, I don't think that we would have never
gotten off the ground.
I do what I do , so that someday no one will every have
to deal with all this @#@*&%*#%%*%# crap !!!!!
BE A REAL HERO,,,,, SIGN UP TO BE A DONOR !!!!
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