Friday, September 17, 2010
9.17.10 Julie of Pancreatic Cancer Action Network
When Julie's mom passed away from pancreatic cancer in 2008 she was devastated. Julie wanted to find out more about the disease, so she went on the internet. She found the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, she was so impressed by part of their mission to create hope for those with pancreatic cancer, that she is now the event coordinator for the Milwaukee Affliate.
Friday, September 10, 2010
9.10.10 Carey Fitzmaurice of Tealtoes.org
When Carey Fitzmaurice was diagnosed with Ovarian cancer she wanted to raise awareness in a unique way for this "silent killer." She founded a great organization to raise awareness called www.tealtoes.org
Friday, September 3, 2010
9.2.10 Melissa Jones of Alexslemonade.org
Imagine if you were a child and all you had ever known was cancer. That was Alex Scott, who was diagnosed with Neuroblastoma before her first birthday in 1996. Alex battled cancer hard, and day after her fourth birthday, She told her mom, that when she got out of the hospital she wanted to have a lemonade stand. She said she wanted to give the money to doctors who had helped her. Amazingly she had raised 2,000 for "her hospital. Alex held lemonade stands every year until her death in 2004 at the age of 8, but she knew that with her help many people had started their own lemonade stands and raised over $1 million dollars for Alex's Lemonade Stand.
Friday, August 27, 2010
8.27.10 Idelle Davidson of YourBrainafterchemo.com
Being faced with a cancer diagnosis is hard, so is the treatment. Every cancer survivor has side effects from chemo,but what if they continue long after treatment is over? Idelle Davidson is a breast cancer survivor and author. She discusses chemobrain, some of its symptoms, what you can do to help manage it and how it affected her in her book http://www.yourbrainafterchemo.com
Friday, August 20, 2010
8.20.10 Eric Galvez of Masskickers.org
Imagine following your dream of becoming a physical therapist only to need one yourself. Thats what happened to Eric Galvez, he was diagnoses with a meningioma, a brain tumor. Fortunately for Eric it was benign, but he had to give up his dream of being a physical therapist and start the road to recovery. During this time he wrote a book called "Reversal, when a therapist becomes a patient" and wanted to give back to help others so he started an organization to help other brain tumor and brain cancer patients called http://www.masskickers.org
Thursday, August 12, 2010
8.12.10 Kathy Betz of Bike4BreastCancer.org
When Kathy Betz first started bike riding for charity she had no idea that soon after her mother would be diagnosed with breast cancer. Wanting to help her mom and the local women in the community she founded http://www.bike4breastcancer.org.
8.12.10 Kathy Betz of Bike4BreastCancer
8.12.10 Kathy Betz of Bike4BreastCancer
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Deloris and Mark Bailey of Friendslikeus.org
Deloris and Mark Bailey - When Deloris and Mark Bailey's son Brandon was diagnosed with cancer when he was 4 years old they wanted to give him something that would make him feel at ease when he was at the hospital. They gave him a chemo bear and told him that everything he goes through the bear will go through too. That was 6 years ago and Brandon is in remission. Deloris and Mark want to give all children diagnosed with cancer a chemo bear and that is why they started www.friendslikeus.org
Deloris and Mark Bailey of Friendslikeus.org
Deloris and Mark Bailey of Friendslikeus.org
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