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Bill2

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Just got the news that my younger brother Josh is in FULL REMISSION from the Leukemia he has been fighting for the past five months!!!!

So excited, I can't tell you all....been doing a lot of jumping up and down and fist pumping!

In about a month I will be back east as a bone marrow donor for him!

I would love to make a donation to a cancer fund in his name. If anyone would like to make a donation to the cause, please send paypal to [email protected]

Please, also feel free to send along love to through his band's website, www.Brakesband.com, or through this thread, and I will pass it along! The Leukemia didn't make their music any better....it was good to start with. Buy a CD....get them back out on tour!

Cheers,

-Bill

p.s. I just begun to look for an appropriate charity organization. If anyone has any recomendations, I am all ears!

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news like this always brings hope to the world, congrats, and i hope this event brings new meaning and a new chapter to your life.

God granted your brother a new life, help him and help your self to live it to the fullest, with meaning. and remember every bit of it.

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hey man, hope everything works out

thats great news, and good on you for using the community for some good with all the negativity on sufu as of late

Although I was previously unaware of any of this, this is great news. Everyone needs to be positive, there is physiological benefits to thinking +++ !

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Thanks to everyone for their thoughts! I'm in the process of trying to put a more serious donation together....and am pleased to announce that I have chosen the Make-A-Wish foundation as the charity. . .

I have to admit, I have had some second thoughts about sharing something so personal on here, but the comments have all been so heartfelt and thoughtful...thanks everyone! Now, enough sappy stuff...back to obsessing over honeycombs and leg twist...

-B

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I'm glad to hear your brother is doing well. My cousin died of Leukemia 2 months ago. :(

I know of some Dutch charity organizations, meant to support children, but I'm not sure if they're active all over the world.

I hope there'll be a cute nurse for you to make the marrow extraction a bit less unpleasant!

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What is the bone marrow donation process like? Do they drill into one of your bones?

There are amazing new techniques that they are using! In my preliminary talks with the doctors involved, the preferred method in my case will be much less invasive. My understanding, is that the procedure is now more like undergoing dialysis. I will receive special treatments about a week before the harvesting of the cells, designed to prompt my body to produce, and release the kind cells they need. Then I get hooked up to a machine that filters those cells from my blood over the course of a few hours.....As the time approaches, I will be learning more about the exact course of events. . .

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Sitting bedside with him at this very moment. Stem cell transplant scheduled for this coming friday. Chemo and Radiation all this week. Last major hurdle, its a big one, but should be the last one for a long while

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It is with a heavy heart that I have to update this thread. My younger brother, Josh, passed away from his battle with Leukemia. He passed on May 4th. I thank everyone who passed along their best wishes and support for him and for my family.

Josh had a very aggresive form of Leukemia, and despite seven rounds of Chemotherapy, and a bone marrow transplant from yours truly, it was just too much for his body to bare.

This time in my life has been incredibly difficult, painful, and surreal. I've been doing my best to find the life lessons hidden in a tragedy like this...with borderline success. I apologize for neglecting my online family...I'll be back on the paint cans soon..

In a cruel turn of irony, his band's first record release fell on the date of his funeral, May 6th. The band is The Brakes, the album is called Tale of Two Cities, and its avail on Amazon.com. The band is a great group of guys, all local kids from our neighborhood in the suburbs of Philadelphia (Lower Merion). They played beautifully at the funeral, Josh's drum kit sat un-manned in the middle of the chapel.

-Bill

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