Posts by Kristina Gaddy
‘Batkid’ movie coming out this June
Looking for something that will lift your spirits this summer? On June 26th, Batkid Begins: The Wish Heard Around the World will premiere in theaters. The documentary tells the true story of…
Read MoreJoin for Joe!
Next week, Loyola Blakefield will host their 7th annual Join for Joe bone marrow donor registry drive. The drive was started for Loyola student Joe Gorman, who passed away…
Read MoreSpring 2015 Newsletter
Partnering to Save Lives On April 1st, There Goes My Hero partnered with the Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults and Sharing America’s Marrow to add life-saving bone marrow donors…
Read MoreNews – Hero Featured in Baltimore Business Journal
“Nonprofit that gives meals to leukemia patients seeks to double fundraising” by Sarah Gantz Read more in the Baltimore Business Journal online here. Join our campaign to feed more leukemia…
Read MorePatient Stories – Board Member Michele Bresnick Walsh in Baltimore Style
Read board member Michele Bresnick Walsh’s story about finding an unrelated bone marrow donor on the National Registry in Baltimore Style magazine.
Read More5th Annual Taste for Life
There Goes My Hero P.O. Box 701 Bel Air, MD 21014 Phone: (410) 946- 1700 Home 5th Annual Taste for Life Feed a Hero, Be a Hero Fundraising Event…
Read MoreThe beginning of Hero
In October of 2009, Erik Sauer wrote an email to Michele Bresnick Walsh, who he had met at Johns Hopkins Hospital where they were both getting bone marrow transplants to…
Read MoreChampions of the Transplant – THE DONOR!
Every story of a bone marrow transplant has a hero and a champion. That person is the donor. On Saturday, September 20th, 2014, we celebrated our third-annual HeroPalooza to thank…
Read MoreLearn A Little – How Leukemia Treatment Is Changing
by Kristina Gaddy, volunteer with Hero Author, writer, hematologist, and oncologist Jerome Groopman is well known for writing about health topics, specifically cancer and HIV/AIDS for the non-medical community. This…
Read MoreLearn a Little – How to Find a Perfect Match
We talk about getting “matches” for leukemia patients, but what exactly is a match? Every person has a blood type (think A+, O-, etc.), and when we get a blood…
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