Last year on my fundraising page, I told the story of my aunt and her treatment journey at Roswell.
It said, in part, that in 2020, she joined the list of people who were fighting cancer. She was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia that year, and for a while her treatment regimen was always the same: spend every day for seven days straight at Roswell hooked up all day long to machines that delivered her life-saving chemotherapy. Then she would wait three weeks, then do it all again. Seven more days.
After two years, her doctors had great news: "You know, there's this new medication--a pill--that was tested here and just approved by the FDA. Let's switch you to that."
And so she switched. No more week long stints or traveling back and forth each day. No more hours and hours hooked up to machines.
Not only did this new treatment offer some relief, but the care and attention that she consistently received at Roswell was compassionate, attentive, and full of love.
After outliving her original prognosis by almost two years, my aunt passed away on February 10 of this year. She was 78. We all miss her smile, her laugh and her stubbornness.
This year, I am once again joining my dad and many other family members as part of the Fighting Irish Fighting Cancer team. We will ride together to make a difference in the lives of cancer patients and their families. Families like ours.
Please consider making a donation today
to help treat current patients
and to find cures.
Together, we ALL can make a difference.
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