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Aha. I stand corrected

Thank you Kathy S for the info on George HW and Barbara Bush.

I believe that George HW & Barbara have given substantial $ to MD Anderson.

My husband's oldest son died in 1962 at age 10 of a tumor on his brain stem. Although he has given $ for brain tumor research, he could not immerse himself emotionally in fund raising. It was just too painful.

Kathy S. - NJ

PS - I've voted for Steph approx 25 times so far - you need to mention her and the link at the top of your blog.

I guess I just hadn't heard much about them doing fundraising. Even George Foreman has a clinic there. The George E. Foreman Pediatric and Adolescent Inpatient Unit.

Very cool. Now I have a few folks that I might be contacting in my million dollar cure leukemia fundraising drive. But I wonder... the amount of power that the Bushes have... well, they could really help with leukemia and other forms of blood cancers. I mean you can buy a Susan G Koman just about anything for breast cancer (I keep waiting for the Komen pink vibrator - it would sell a gajillion I'm thinkin'), yet the majority of people don't have a clue what leukemia is. They still ask me if I got my stem cell transplant from aborted fetuses.

Those of us (including friends and family) are basically forced to learn more about our form of cancer. But why is it like that? For how many years have most of you known about breast cancer self exams? Or that smoking causes lung cancers? Heck, even Katie Couric had a camera shoved up her colon.

Lots of people have heard of leukemia, but most that I talk to don't really undertand what it is. What any of the symptoms are. What is entailed in a bone marrow/ stem cell transplant. What it means to relapse. And most of all, how long and enduring some of the treatments are. And how expensive it can be before, during and after.

It does take knowing someone's personal story to become involved. I had never even heard of Robin Bush until just a few days ago.

Well, Bushes, I will try to make up the slack. Because I kicked that damn no-good cancer's ass. And I'm still here to tell about it.

I can do this. I have a job here.

Your assignment today is to pay it forward. You all have seen the HPV commercials that tell people to "Tell Someone," well, I'd like you to do the same to someone about Leukemia. Tell them about organizations like the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

Or perhaps make a healthy resolution, a few weeks in advance, to train with the Team in Training group to do an event for leukemia fundraising and in the process get your buns (and other various body parts) in shape. I'm not quite there yet, but one day I will be. And then I'm going to run your asses down!!

So pay it forward. Spread the word. Train with a friend. You will both be better off for it, and IMO it will count towards my goal of raising my million dollars.

10:00 am. Tomorrow. Appointment with the man. The PTM. Personal. Trainer. Man.

Wish me luck.

Posted by debutaunt at December 17, 2006 06:05 PM