Day 64 of 98 Days...March Madness

This is a month where Basketball fans are soaking up every game having the time of their life watching their teams try to make it into the big dance.  Homes everywhere hosting parties as hourly brackets and ladders are being rewritten daily.  What is it about this that has so many huddled up against the TV?  Is it seeing these young kids lay everything on the line for their team?  It's not about money it's about the love of the game and those fans watching can't seem to get enough because they are witnessing the best of the best young men and women out there achieving greatness.  Surprises are always in store which glues you to watch the last minutes because nothing is assured. Upsets occur as underdogs rise to the occasion and moves on while the other left speechless goes home.  But regardless of what happens life goes on and they live to play another day.

What does this have to do with the fund-raising campaign everything and yet nothing?  I try to help give you visuals as to what we are facing with blood cancer in the hopes one of my blogs grabs you.  Did you know Basketball Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul Jabbar is fighting a rare form of Leukemia called CML. Former Florida All-America center Dwayne Schintzius is at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa getting treatment in what has become a months-long battle with leukemia.   Charles Hayward, a basketball player at North Carolina-Charlotte, died after a two-year fight with leukemia. He was 21.

Leukemia has no boundaries it strikes when those least expect it and can take a life.  It's a young life that had similar dreams to those during March Madness that you enjoy watching.  It's someone's son, daughter, parent and loved one with the same hopes of those who make it into the big dance.  Except when they lose it's not just a game it's their life.  And every 10 minutes without funding research we lose another to blood cancer. So in the spirit of March Madness and the joy it brings watching young men and women put everything on the line why not add to that feeling by supporting a fund-raising campaign that can save a life.  Every $1.00 can make a difference.  Click here to donate:  http://in.llsevent.org/Pam