Showing posts with label Blogging for Blood Cancer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blogging for Blood Cancer. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Give and Get to Benefit The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

Shop at Old Navy, Banana Republic, or GAP from March 12, 2009 to March 15, 2009, Not only will you benefit but so will the The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

You can get 30% off at the above companies during their Friends & Family event*. They are calling it "Give & Get" because for every purchase you make, they will give 5% of the amount you spend to The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Now, here is the get part, as a thank, you get a 30% discount off your total purchase. And you can you is as many times as you want during the four days. Just print out the coupon from the link below and start shopping now!!!

Shopping, discounts, and it benefits charity!!! What more could you ask for?

[Click here to print your coupon.]

*The coupons are for in-store purchases only and they ARE good in both the USA and Canada.

About the GAP Foundation
The GAP Foundation believes in creating opportunities for people to fulfill their personal promise. They call the program "Be What's Possible." In communities throughout the world, they desire to help people change the course of their lives by taking personal ownership of their future and their potential. [Learn more.]

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Blogging for Blood Cancer Winners

Here are are lucky Blogging for Blood Cancer winners who helped Goodies for Mom raise awareness for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society:

Thank you so much to all the generous sponsors who helped us be able to offer these great prizes and thank you to all of you who helped make this event so successful!!!!!!!

(Winners will be contacted shortly to claim your prizes or you can e-mail lois(@)goodiesformom(.)com with the prize you won along with your full name and shipping address.)

Monday, August 18, 2008

It's Not Too Late: Today's the Last Day to Win

Don't forget today is the last day to win lots of great prizes in our Blogging for Blood Cancer event!!!!! Visit these posts to learn more about how you can win a lot of great prizes,while helping raise awareness for blood cancer and The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society:

Sunday, August 17, 2008

Easy Ways to Help Support The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

Shop and Give

What's an easier way to give to a worthy organization than to just shop for thing you already need? Make shopping fun, easy and support a good cause. The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society partners, with such brand names as Ed Bauer, Sears, KB Toys, Office Max, and more.

[Start Shopping]

Send a Free ePostcard

It's so easy to invite others - your friends, family, neighbors and co-workers - to volunteer or support The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society by sending a free epostcard.

[Send a Postcard]

Advocacy

Register to become a member of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's (LLS) Advocates Network. Help The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) advocate for public policy positions that accelerate progress toward cures for leukemia, Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphoma and myeloma.

[Become an Adovacate]

Saturday, August 16, 2008

Buy A Sara Rose Tutu and Help LLS

Stacy of Sara Rose Tutus has created this beautiful red and black tulle tutu with a black ribbon waistband just for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. They are generously donating 30% of the proceeds for this tutu to The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society through the Friends of Heroes Team.

This elegant tutu comes in newborn thru adult sizes.

This opportunity will be running for the next six months and then they will be selecting a new charity every six months. If you would like your charity to be their next charity, please contact sarastutus@hotmail.com.

Stacy is the mom of an adorable little one year old named Sara Rose. She also blogs at Busy Mommy Product Review and is just a really wonderful lady who I've been lucky enough to get to know through mutual blogging groups.

If you've been thinking of getting your little princess a tutu now is the time and you can help raise funds for LLS at the same time. Sounds like win-win to me :)!!!

[Visit Sara Rose Tutus now.]

Friday, August 15, 2008

7 Random Facts About "Me" with a Twist

I was tagged by Pamela from PMKU but since it's is Blogging for Blood Cancer week I thought I'd do it with a twist, ok cheat. LOL! Instead of 7 Random Facts about Me, I'm doing 7 Random Facts about The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) and blood cancer.

The rules:
* Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.
* Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.
* Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

  1. LLS was founded in 1949.
  2. 68 local chapters in the United States and Canada
  3. Through its popular Information Resource Center, LLS connects patients, families and caregivers to oncology nurses and social workers.
  4. The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) was born out of a family's grief following the death of their teenage son to leukemia.
  5. The mission of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS): Cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.
  6. Light The Night Walks are celebrating their 10th year.
  7. Society Co-Pay Assistance funds are currently available to patients for up to $5000

Now my turn to tag people!!!!

  1. Dominique
  2. Christy
  3. Beth
  4. Heroes for Children
  5. Friends of Heroes
  6. Susan
  7. Ashley

Bringing Hope for a Brighter Future



Now starting my fifth walk season doing Light The Night, my national co-captain Jenn reminded me in today’s post on the Friends of Heroes blog of one of the most important reasons for being involved. She reminded me that we are helping to offer HOPE to thousands of families each year battling these devastating diseases. In 1955, Leukemia was considered 100% fatal, now patient survival rates range from 50% to 95% depending on the type of blood cancer. The entire Friends of Heroes team is very hopefully that it will not be long before we can say that blood cancer and all cancers are 100% curable!

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society(LLS) is doing an amazing job at offering these patients hope for a brighter tomorrow through patient services and research. As Light The Night celebrates a Decade of Difference, look at what LLS has been able to accomplish in just the past 10 years alone:

  • Nearly half a million patients and their caretakers have called the LLS Information Resource Center and received critical information about blood cancers, therapy options and issues surrounding treatment and survival.
  • Nearly $40 million was disbursed to patients through the LLS Patient Assistance program to help them get the treatment they needed to fight their cancer.
  • Over 100,000 patients and family members found comfort and hope through LLS First Connection and Family Support Groups.
  • LLS granted $425 million to more than 400 scientists searching for cures and improved treatments for patients in just the past 10 years and has supported more than $600 million in research since its inception in 1949.
  • LLS funding contributed to the development of a host of new drugs that are affecting patient survival and quality of life.
  • LLS-funded researchers began working in novel areas that hold great promise for finding cures and better treatments including new, less toxic stem cell transplants, immunotherapies and other targeted therapies.
  • Their Advocacy Network has successfully supported pro-patient legislation that will: - Help advance blood cancer research- Extend Medicare coverage to include oral anti-cancer drugs - Help fund efforts to reach underserved blood cancer patients
    (Source: LLS and Light The Night, 2008)

This is amazing for just 10 years!!!!!

Won't you please consider helping The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society bring help and hope to the thousands of people battling blood cancers?

Thursday, August 14, 2008

RAISING AWARENESS - Why It Ultimately Is Better Than Just Raising Funds

As we hold the "Blogging for Blood Cancer" event, I urge you all to think about the real importance of awareness. Four years ago at this time, I was just learning about little Allie Scott and her battle with Leukemia. It is through Jenny and Allie’s battle that I learned of the The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and their incredible mission: "to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease, and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families." As I sat reading of Allie's battle, what could a mom in NJ do to help this little one?

  • Could I walk 2 miles? Yes!
  • Could I send an e-mail or letter to friends, coworkers, and family? Yes!!!
  • Could literally every single dollar I and my Friends of Heroes team members raised make a difference? Yes, lots of dollars have added up to over $960,000.
  • Would I have ever gotten involved if one single person, Jenny, had not made me aware? Absolutely not!!!!

I think that many of the people who have walked as part of Friends of Heroes (formerly Friends of Allie) over the past four years can say pretty much the same thing. I’ve come into contact with so many people who tell me they have heard of Allie and her story either directly from Jenny or through others sharing it.

I personally have been able to raise only about $5,000 during the four years I've walked. Believe me when I say I am not a big time fundraiser but by working on events like this and being involved in Friends of Heroes has allowed me to raise a significant amount of awareness that is worth way more the that $5,000.

As you participate in this blogging event, please remember how important raising awareness is and how easy it is to do something so important.

  • Does it cost you anything? No. You can do it online or even get many of your supplies from The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and/or your local chapter.
  • Can you tell the story of an honored hero and share why this organization is so important? Who would not want to share these amazing children with others?
  • Can you hand out a brochure or write a blog post? Can you tell others about The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and the importance of cancer research? Can you help get the word out to cancer patients of the services that The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society offers? Not too hard but ok it does take a little effort ;)
  • Where can we do it? Anywhere from your front step to your local grocery store to a restaurant to a community fair to YOUR BLOG.

Please won't you help us raise awareness for this important cause?

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Battling for Blood Cancer Patients

By Puja Thomson

In connection with the "Blogging for Blood Cancer" event to raise awareness for the work of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, this blog honors Marty Laforse, who lived with lymphoma for many years. A true champion, he led a Men's Group through Benedictine Hospital's Oncology Support Program in Kingston, NY. When I was looking for stories about the different ways people face the challenge of cancer to include in my book, After Shock: From Cancer Diagnosis to Healing, Marty, a lymphoma survivor, generously offered his vignette. As you will see, he took little credit for his own resilience, and instead was quick to praise the doctors and researchers who fought on his behalf, making incredible advances. Here's what Marty wrote:

"When I was young, cancer was one of those words I did not even like to hear. If I came across an inevitable article delineating symptoms, I would search my body and its reactions for the merest hint of their presence. One day, decades later, when I had retired I found a hard lump in my groin. My home doctor calmly asserted that we should wait two weeks and see what developed. On the return visit he looked again, noted that the lump did not move and advised me there was a 50-50 chance that it was serious. I went through both needle and surgical biopsies. The results were positive.

I had always envisioned myself collapsing into a spasm of uncontrollable fear were I to receive such news. That did not happen. I didn't dance for joy or fall back on disingenuous philosophies of reassurance but neither did I dissolve into quivering apprehension.

A gaggle of medical visits, blood draws, X-rays, CT-scans and MRI's ensued. I guess laughter helped as, for the most part, my wife and I laughed quite a bit at the comic wigs and gaudy kerchiefs I tried on, in expectation of effects from the chemotherapy I was to undergo. I don't think that this experience broadened me or made me more sensitive. It happened and I luckily found doctors who battled my cancer and have kept it in remission for some years now. I was fortunate that the lymphoma proved treatable. I am grateful for those good years but I battled nothing. Those who treated me and those who researched and discovered treatments battled for me."

Since his death of a sudden heart attack last year, his loss has been felt by all of us in the Oncology Support Program. As a tribute to Marty, who was "gentle, kind and wise," a deck and gazebo have been built at the new Reuner Cancer Support House near the hospital.

About the Author
Puja Thomson is the author of After Shock: From Cancer Diagnosis to Healing - a step-by-step guide to help you navigate your way. An award-winning comprehensive practical resource. ISBN: 9781928663058. Http://www.aftershockfromcancer.com.

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

The Trish Green Back To School Program for the Child with Cancer

Each year, approximately, 12,100 children are diagnosed with cancer in the United States. Treatments include surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, and stem cell transplantation. Even after the initial treatment, child patients may face many years of illness, treatment, stress and post-treatment adjustments. Returning to school can offer a feel of normalcy for families after treatment. In an effort to support families and ease the transition from active treatment to daily life for pediatric cancer patients, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society developed a program to increase communication among healthcare professionals, parents, patients and school officials (campus nurses, counselors, teachers, and administrators).
The objectives of the program are to educate attendees and enable them to:•

  • Describe common childhood cancers and treatments
  • Identify challenges cancer survivors face upon returning to school and throughout their time in school and college
  • Understand laws that protect childhood cancer survivors’ rights
  • Have strategies to help meet the students’ short- and long-term educational needs
  • Acess resources that support schools and families, including those from The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

Teachers can learn what accommodations might be needed for their returning cancer student and can help classmates understand what the student is going through. Because of their daily contact with the student, teachers also play a key role if any health concerns should arise in the classroom.

Cancer survivorship is a lifelong journey, and school reentry is a major milestone in that journey.

For more on the Trish Green Back To School Program, click here.

Monday, August 11, 2008

We Are Blogging for Blood Cancer

This post is now closed.
Winners have been announced. Click here to see if you won.

Thank you so much to everyone who partipated in helping raise awareness for this important cause!!!!!
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This first time event will bring bloggers from across the United States together to raise awareness for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and its mission to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families. We have lots of great prizes to be won for bloggers and non-bloggers.

Make sure to visit the Friends of Heroes blog each day during the event for a chance to win these great prizes as you learn more blood cancer and The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

Goodies for Mom is "Blogging for Blood Cancer" too:

HOW TO WIN HERE:

We have lots of great prizes to win here too if you help us raise awareness! Here how you can win:

  1. Bloggers: Post about the importance of blood cancer research, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Friends of Heroes, The Light Night Walks, or how you have been touched by blood cancer. Please include a link to the Friends of Heroes blog (http://www.friendsofheroes.org/blog) and this post. Also make sure to tell us in your post what prize you'd most like to win. Then leave us a link directly to your post below on MR LINKY. (1 chance to win for each post you make, so make sure to post each day during the event for up to 7 chances to win.)
  2. Non-bloggers: Even if you don't have a blog, you can get a chance to win too. Just e-mail five (5) friends about this event and The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Then leave us comment as your commitment that you've sent the e-mail. E-mail 5 friends each day for more chances to win. Make sure to tell us in your comment what prize you'd like to win most.
  3. Contest closes Monday, August 18, 2008 at 12:00PM EST.

WHAT YOU CAN WIN:

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Blogging for Blood Cancer Event

Blogging for Blood Cancer has now begun!!!!

Go to our official Blogging for Blood Cancer Event post to learn more about this exciting event, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, and the importance of raising awareness for blood cancer. Also learn how you could get a chance to win hundreds of dollars of prizes win.

[Start Blogging for Blood Cancer now.]

This post is now closed. The winner of the $25 Barnes & Noble Gift card is Link #65 Sammi Peters. Thank you everyone who helped us publicize this wonderful event!!!! We had more than 100 sites participating.

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If you have a blog or a website, please help us promote our “Blogging for Blood Cancer” Event. The first annual “Blogging for Blood Cancer” event will take place from August 11-18, 2008. This first time event will bring bloggers from across the United States together to raise awareness for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and its mission to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.

The event is being hosted by Goodies for Mom in conjunction with the Friends of Heroes (FOH) National Light The Night Team of which I am a proud part. We are asking (ok ,begging) that bloggers post on your blogs throughout the event about the importance of the LLS mission, share your personal stories of those you have come to know who have been affected by blood cancer, or share some of the stories you read here and on the FOH site during the week that have touched your hearts.

All bloggers participating will have the opportunity to be entered to win prizes donated by event sponsors by leaving a Mr. Linky link on the Goodies for Mom post for the event. The event post will go up on August 11, 2008 at 8:00am. Even if you do not have a blog, visitors to the Goodies for Mom and Friends of Heroes blogs during the week will also have opportunities to win as they learn more about the importance of LLS’s research and patient services in the fight against blood cancer.

To help promote the event, anyone who puts a button or banner on their site, or writes a post about the event with a link back to this post, then leaves a link below on our Mr. Linky by midnight on August 10, 2008 will be entered for a chance to win a $25 Barnes & Noble gift card.

Here is the code for the buttons and banners:










To get you started learning about FOH, pop over to the Friends of Heroes blog and read about Courtney’s Angels, an FOH affliate team honoring a fun, incredible angel named Courtney.

Make sure to check back as prizes are added for the event. If you would like to sponsor a prize, contact me at lois(@)goodiesformom(.)com. Currently we have the following prizes lined up during the event: