Friday, April 16, 2010

Day 90 of...98 Days ...Trees in the Forest

It has been asked if a Tree falls in the Forest does anyone hear it?  If you were there you would.  Now imagine yourself in a forest with 900,000 trees of all sizes and years starting from the unsteady fragile seedlings up to full grown trees.  As you walk through this very dense forest you noticed that in fact upon closer look the tress looked sickly, the leaves are turning brown and there are unusual growths. As you continued on walking in disbelief of what should be this beautiful sight all of a sudden within the first 10 minutes you heard one fall, then another and every 10 minutes trees were falling all around you.  It would take you back it would be a frightening sight you would see the whole forest dying and you didn't know how to stop it and you then realized if you didn't this entire forest of 900,000 would be gone.

Now substitute that forest with all those who suffer from blood cancers from the youngest precious of children to teens and older adults.  And as you were walking through this forest of 900,000 patients passing all of those that had this devastating disease.  Seeing some of them with tubes keeping them alive, balding, suffering in pain and every 10 minutes one fell and died and again every 10 minutes another and another.

You know it's easy to say I am not seeing the tress in the forest if you don't know someone who has been affected by blood cancer.  But they are all around us and it's the family that sees them and every day dies a little inside watching their loved one battle this disease.  If you ever saw that forest of patients you would understand the importance of stopping Leukemia, Lymphoma and Myeloma. If a tree dies you plant another no one mourns that loss when a life is taken it changes the surviving family members forever.  Together let's fund research and find a cure.... Let's save them...Donate Now.

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