Stories
5 Great Donor-Patient Meetings
This summer, our founder Erik Sauer was able to travel to Germany with his family to attend the wedding of Isabel, his bone marrow donor. This got us thinking about…
Read More5 Reasons We Love Nurses
It’s Nurse Appreciation Week! At There Goes My Hero, we know that nurses are a vital part of the team when you’re going through treatment for any type of cancer.…
Read MoreMeet a Hero
Two years ago, one of Hero’s volunteers received a phone call that he was the match for a blood cancer patient who needed a stem cell transplant. Mike was…
Read MoreA Message From Lori…
For those of you that don’t know, Lori Nam is a part of the Hero family and creator of Swab and Save Someone (SASS), an amazing initiative in partnership with…
Read MoreMy Experience as a Bone Marrow Donor – Part 2
My sister had been fighting leukemia for five years, and the time had finally come for me to attempt to help cure her cancer. The night before and…
Read MoreMy Experience as a Bone Marrow Donor – Part 1
In 2007 my older sister Jonell was diagnosed with Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia during her senior year of college. CML is a type of blood cancer that can settle…
Read MoreThe Bone Marrow Registry and Why Diversity Matters
With every passing 120 seconds a person in the U.S. is diagnosed with a blood cancer. Many people look to the National Bone Marrow Registry when in need of a…
Read MoreErik Sauer on WJZ
WJZ’s Gigi Barnett talked with Hero founder Erik Sauer and Jim Mitich of Ruth’s Chris.
Read More‘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 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.
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