Posts Tagged ‘Erik Sauer’
Letter from the Chairman and Founder
Dear supporters, On May 20, 2008, I was diagnosed with acute leukemia. A week later, my son was born. This May, Joey is celebrating his 10th birthday, and I am celebrating ten years of surviving cancer. A year after my transplant, I planned the first Polo Match and Family Outing to say “Thank You” to…
Read MoreLetter from the Chairman, Winter 2016
Letter from the Founder and Chairman of the Board, Erik Sauer Dear supporters, It’s been seven years since I started thinking about creating a foundation that would do for other leukemia patients what my family and friends did for me. A year after my transplant, I considered myself so lucky that saying “Thank you” seemed…
Read MoreErik Sauer on WJZ
WJZ’s Gigi Barnett talked with Hero founder Erik Sauer and Jim Mitich of Ruth’s Chris.
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 patients and their families by attending Taste for Life 2015.
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. Jenn has an extremely rare form of leukemia that has characteristics of both lymphoblastic and myelogenous leukemia, and the hope is that a bone marrow…
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 to having the RSV. When I came to Hopkins for out patient treatment, I had to be quarantined. This meant I had my own personal room, which was larger and…
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 having the requisite amount of graph versus host disease which was presenting itself as a rash over 90% of my body. As I’ve said before,…
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 getting better and getting ready for a bone marrow transplant. I was visiting Hopkins everyday and having my blood “checked”. In September I was receiving blood transfusions and…
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 now. I met terrific friends through that experience; doctors, nurses, other patients and, of course, Isabel my donor from Germany. For years, my patient friends…
Read MoreWords of Hope – FLAM
Sept 2, 2008 August 2008 was one of many difficult months, I had begun my 2nd round of treatment after my relapse. I needed an experimental chemo treatment called FLAM to achieve my first remission. FLAM was a difficult experience. Because I had relapsed, I needed a different treatment and had to start the whole…
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