Day 72 of...98 Days...The Onion

The onion is an interesting vegetable it has so many layers to it.  And each time you peel away another layer you get to the center of it and it burns causing tears to flow.  It parallels the human emotion.  As you peel away another layer and get to the heart and soul of any matter you feel almost naked and filled with raw emotion and it does burn and tears do have a tendency to flow.

The first layer was accepting the nomination for the fund-raising campaign and spending a day reading about Tressa's unbelievable hard fought battle with leukemia at 21 and trying to comprehend the pain what is was to feel losing a child.

The second layer was launching Light The App iPhone and reading dedications come in everyday of loved ones praying for their children, parents, grandparents, cousins who have been recently diagnosed or have lost the fight.

The third layer was reaching out to family, friends, colleagues, neighbors, strangers asking over 2000 people for help so we can fund research and find a cure quickly learning not everyone shares the same passion that there are so many wonderful causes out there to support.

The forth layer was getting a phone call from a child who was diagnosed at 5 is now in remission and so thankful for absolutely anything I can do to raise money and find a cure.  A cure so if it ever should ever come back he has a fighting chance.

The fifth layer was wishing and wondering why this isn't easier for people and questioning myself if I haven't explained the gravity of this devastating disease because every 10 minutes we lose someone to blood cancer.

The sixth layer was the tears I have shed for Tressa, for other children fighting and parents and families who are frightened because there are advanced therapies but there is no cure.

So I peeled all my layers away like an onion and at the heart of it I need help the team and me singularly we are nothing but with others we can make a difference.  Every single dollar can quickly add up if we had volume so we can fund research and find a cure for blood cancer.  These 900,000 and their families desperately need us won't you peel away the layers and take a close look at this with your heart and donate and tell others?

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