Please help in the fight against blood cancers!

This is a serious topic for today and every day. Millions have died and over 50,000 are headed that way this year in just the U.S. alone. Families are losing fathers and mothers. Parents are losing children. Brothers are losing sisters and sisters are losing brothers. Many are losing friends. The end is often lingering and painful. The killer is a collection of different types of blood cancers including leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkins disease, and myeloma.

The impact is tragic to the afflicted and their families. I know. Leukemia killed my aunt in January, 2010. Multiple myeloma killed my wife's father at the age of 43. Several of my friends have lost parents due to blood cancers. Over the past weekend I rode with another bicyclist who is fighting the battle against multiple myeloma and riding to raise money to support research for a cure. He is literally riding for his life. These diseases hit close to home. Ask around a little and you will find out just how close to yours.

If you want to help, please sponsor me in a 100 mile bicycle ride I am doing as a member of Team in Training to support the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS). They fund research for cures and treatments for blood cancers. They also provide services to patients and their families. They do a world of good. I have heard testimonials from the people whom they have helped. It is a good thing. You can help by contributing online using this link to my secure donation site sponsored by LLS: http://pages.teamintraining.org/nyc/ambbr10/amfregly

Thanks,
Andy