Congratulations, Jennifer, and thank you for being a part of the fight for better lives and cures! I, too, am raising funds through Team in Training and my husband and I have been doing so since 2000. We are now doing our 13th fundraising marathon for TNT, the inaugural Nike Women's Half Marathon, and we are involved with our team year round. We are proud of the $$$ we have raised for the LLS mission. Dr. Druker had many grants from the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society that supported the research that led to Gleevec. When I found out about that, I joined the team (I was still in the STI 571 trial at UCLA as a matter of fact) to run the L.A. Marathon in March of 2001 (I signed my husband up too who was on a business trip. Boy was he surprised!) Little did I know that when I was fighting through that challenging first year after my diagnosis in 1997-98 (on Interferon and cytarabine every day) that there was an army of people out there raising the funds that would soon save me. I am blessed to be on a team of people who, in my opinion, are among the "good guys" of the world!
Good luck on your full marathon. On behalf of all of us, I thank you for committing your mind, body and soul to help blood cancer patients! Virginia Garner "We must be the change we want to see in the world." ~ Ghandi Virginia Garner Mission Captain, San Gabriel Valley Team in Training Marathon Team ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] Sent: 11/11/12 06:16 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [CMLHope] CML Patient Raising Funds for LLS Hello to All, Many years ago I was a regular visitor to this group, more recently an occasional observer. You see, in June of 2001 I was diagnosed with CML. That was less than one month after Gleevec was approved. I began on Gleevec and soon held one of the coveted slots on Zavie's "Zero Club" list. Since then I have been on daily doses of Gleevec and have had the opportunity to watch my children, who were very young at the time of my diagnosis, grow up. Unfortunately, I also saw friends in other countries (where Gleevec was not available at the time) who I met on this site succumb to their disease. I am eternally greatful for the role that the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society played in getting Gleevec to market for use by the general population in the United States. On January 13, 2013 I am participating in the Walt Disney World Marathon (my first full marathon) with Team in Training to raise funds for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society to help in their continuing war against blood cancers. To read more about my story or, perhaps, make a donation to the LLS, please visit my fundraising site at: http://pages.teamintraining.org/in/wdw13/jhudspeth Thank you, Jennifer in Indiana -- [CMLHope] A support group of http://cmlhope.com ------------------------------------------------- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CMLHope" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CMLHope -- [CMLHope] A support group of http://cmlhope.com ------------------------------------------------- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CMLHope" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CMLHope
