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Remembering 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…
Read MoreCreative partnership bringing hope to those diagnosed with leukemia
Baltimore, MD – March 24, 2014 —There Goes My Hero Foundation (www.theregoesmyhero.org) Three non-profit organizations are working together as never before. Delete Blood Cancer, There Goes My Hero and…
Read MoreWords of Hope – The Fringe Benefit of RSV
March 2009 After enduring the RSV treatment in March, and mentally getting over being hospitalized for another 5 days, I was back at home beginning to recover again. There was one fringe benefit…
Read MoreWords of Hope: The RSV Challenge
February 2009 Recovery into the beginning of January had been very promising. My blood counts were on the rise and my body was acclimatizing to Isabel’s bone marrow. I was…
Read MoreWords of Hope – Graph vs. Host
January 5th 2009 So we rolled over into my second year of treatment. To summarize at this point, I spent the beginning of 2008 sick with headaches resulting from an…
Read MoreWords of Hope: A Delicate Balance II
December 18th, 2008 Today, I was released from prison. Not that I don’t appreciate Johns Hopkins, but when you are hooked up to IV all day, everyday, for 35 days…
Read MoreWords of Hope – Transplant!
Nov. 18th, 2008: Today, I had a bone marrow transplant. It would prove to be the solution for a very big problem, an Acute Leukemia diagnosis. The road to the…
Read MoreWord's of Hope – No Hope
Towards the end of the October I was writing about my donor being lost due to bronchitis and my liver starting to fail on top of three intensive rounds of…
Read MoreWords of Hope – Balancing Act
Oct 2008 versus Oct 2013 As I mentioned in the September blog, it was a weird time of recovery. I had received the FLAM treatment in August and spent September…
Read More5th Year Anniversary
In 2008, I was diagnosed with Acute Leukemia. I was told my singular option for survival was a bone marrow transplant. I received the transplant in November, 2008; 5 years ago…
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