Please consider

http://pages.teamintraining.org/ntx/ambbr13/dhuffmatfu

The above link is to my sister in law's fundraising page.  She is training for a 100mile bike race this summer.  She is training with Team in Training to do this race, and as many of you know the cause is very close to our hearts.  TNT is the fundraising arm if the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.  If you're not aware let me give you an idea of why this is important for our family.

In 2006, my husband, Jason, was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia.  We were blindsided by the diagnosis, because no one in his family had been diagnosed with it before.  The type he had was common for people ages birth to twenty and sixty to eighty.  At the time, he was thirty five.  Our children were two and four.  His marrow was 95% cancerous, and if we had waited a couple more weeks to seek treatment it was possible Jason would have gone to sleep one night and not woken up.  That, apparently was common.  Jason ended up being his own donor for the transplant, which was a new way of treatment within the last few years.  He responded well to chemo, he was very weak, and no one in his family was a match.  It lasted less than a year, and then he relapsed.  He passed away one month before his thirty ninth birthday due to GFH disease.  But, during his courageous battle he was given several treatments that were very new based on the lasted information.  Several of the treatments were just out of the experimental stage, and even though they didn't work, it still bought us some time.  Because of people who'd donated money to the LLS treatments were discovered that weren't available five to ten years before.  The information that Jason provided his doctors with, will hopefully help someone else.

Even though Jason died, we were given three extra years that we wouldn't have gotten otherwise.  His little girl wouldn't have remember him at all if he'd died back in 2006.  After he passed away, I trained for a half marathon with TNT.  I'm not the most outgoing person and didn't do we'll in the fundraising part, but I finished the race i'd trained for and continue to run. The kids and I donate the money we save during Lent to the LLS so that they can continue to fight and find treatments that will some day help someone else.  Dana continues to train and raise money through bike races, and we like to help her in any way we can.  I have water bottles that I'm going to try and sell to help her raise money.  Maybe after reading this, you will thoughtfully and prayerfully consider donating money to her page to help her in her race.  She is trying to find her way without her baby brother, and this way helps a bit.