Board of Directors member Michele Walsh shares her story and the mission of There Goes My Hero
There Goes My Hero Founder Erik Sauer, Board Member Steve Nuetzel and volunteers join Ron Matz of WJZ13 for Manic Monday
Win an Autographed Ravens Football
Will you take our challenge? Our goal is 400 attendees and $40,000 at the 3rd Annual Hero-Palooza. We are 18 days away and we challenge you to help us reach our goal.…
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…
Read MoreChampions of the Transplant – E. Don Thomas
“Don was a hero.” – Fred Appelbaum, Deputy Director, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center At 3:40 a.m. on an October morning in 1990, Don Thomas woke to the sound…
Read MoreWord of Hope – Light at the End of the Tunnel
In June 2009, I was actually starting to feel like I was going to come out on the other side of this experience. My blood counts were rising and nearing…
Read MorePartnering with #JennStrong and the Ravens
In March of 2014, sports reporter Nestor “Nasty” Aparicio’s wife Jenn was diagnosed out of the blue with leukemia, just like some 50,000 people each year in the United States.…
Read MoreWords of Hope – April & May challenges
Here is a synopsis of April/May 2009 I am sorry for the delay in blog posts. Hero has been quite busy the past few months running bone marrow drives…
Read MoreLoyola Blakefield’s Annual Blood Marrow Drive Embodies ‘Men For Others’ Motto
TOWSON, Md. (WJZ)—A cause is something that unites people. It’s a goal, a focus, a pathway. Now, as Mike Schuh reports, the freshman at Loyola Blakefield who gave that school a cause…
Read MoreRemembering Joe Gorman by helping others
Joe Gorman was supposed to graduate from Loyola in 33 days, but Leukemia took him away from us. But Joe was back on campus today, in the hearts of every…
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