inspiring stain: Dallas Fort Worth Events: Light the Night Leukemia Lymphoma Walk

Friday, November 16, 2012

Dallas Fort Worth Events: Light the Night Leukemia Lymphoma Walk

Dallas Fort Worth Events: Light the Night Leukemia Lyphoma Walk

little light thenight walker in dalls tx Good evening y?all,

I wanted to write a post about the Light the Night walk we attended in Dallas TX this year.? It?s been 2 years since we last attended a walk due to just having a baby and then being too busy but we are supporters of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.? My husband is a leukemia survivor.? He was diagnosed with AML (acute myeloid leukemia) in 2000.

He told me that he found out on a Friday from the doctor that the dallas tx, light the night walk, leukemia lymphoma society leukemia was pretty well established in his body.? The doctor wanted him to go to the hospital for treatment that very minute.? He had already had plans to go camping that weekend and decided that he needed time to process what he?d just been told.? He entered the hospital that following Monday to begin his treatment of chemotherapy, full body radiation, and another round of chemotherapy.? This was followed by a bone marrow transplant by one of his brothers(he has 7) for a full recovery.? This year is his 12^th Rebirthday.

We have known many others of our friends that have been touched by the steele's at Dallas' Light the Night Leukemia walk leukemia and lymphoma, as well as other cancers.? If you are feeling generally different than normal and tired, or there?s something under your skin that just doesn?t feel right, make sure you visit the doctor.? If you have cuts that don?t heal, frequent minor infections, aches in your bones and joints and other symptoms, get checked out. ?Even if you?re scared or nervous that something is wrong what if something is wrong.? One of our family gold balloon in memorial, dallas tx, light the night leukemia walk members was diagnosed with a rare cancer that he?s had for at least 2 years after discovering a lump in his neck and just being too scared to go to the doctor.? He?s at stage 3 and treatment is much more aggressive than it would have been and it?s possibly spread.?

So every year we fundraise for the LLS to help them with patient care, treatment, research and development and information. ?We?ve been able to visit labs in San Diego where they do research on these blood cancers and try to downtown dallas tx, light the night 2012 leukemia lymphoma walk come up with better treatment options for people who are diagnosed.?

This Light the Night Walk is just one of many ways the local Dallas Fort Worth chapter fundraises during the year. ?It was held in Downtown Dallas and had a great turnout.? It makes you feel good surrounded by others who have gone through this cancer or known someone that has.? It is an honoring and memorializing night as well.? We walk in honor of my husband who beat it, in addition to two of our friends, one who had lymphoma diagnosed and beat when she was only 35 and another diagnosed with leukemia when she was only 3(she?s now 8).?

I hope you enjoy my photos of this awesome night and that I have helped lead you to answers and support if you need it.? Take the time to visit the site and find a fundraising opportunity that matches what you are most 12 years leukemia free, dallas tx, light the night walk, leukemia, lymphoma interested in.? They do marathons, climbs, regattas and golf.