Sept.30/2006 our world as we knew it completely changed. The phone call from the E.R. doctor we had taken our son to on that Saturday due to flu like symptoms, did blood to rule out Mono, that T.J. tested positive for LEUKEMIA! T.J. was 14 years old. He was admitted to the Pederatric Hemotology/Oncology ward that night! He had to have several blood transfusion of both red blood & platelets through that night. The next morning he had a bone marrow aspriation to determine what type of Leukemia he had. The results were Acute Lymphoblastic Leulemia (Pro-B) Also know as ALL!

He endured over 200 spinal taps, 250+ blood & platelet transfusions, countless hours of chemo infusions, liver failure not once but 3 times & so much more but no room to type it all out here.

Point being that at the start of our journey on our walk of the cancer path we learned all too quickly that Childhood Cancers are not on the map as they should be to help find cures. Well, our brave HERO SURVIVOR son decided he wanted to help give all the children & adults with blood and other cancers a BIG VOICE! So he started to do some research and came up with a HUGE goal. BREAK THE WORLD RECORD FOR THE LARGEST HATS COLLECTION! Since starting this adventure we have collected over 27,000 hats and to break the record he needs 48,000!

He has a website that in the "About T.J." section helps explain in more detail here at: http://tjsjourney.com/

Ive also placed the next link to an ad that was done by a local newspaper:
http://www.mlive.com/southeastadvance/index.ssf/2010/09/kentwood_teen_with_leukemia_ai.html

All we are simply asking for are donations of hats, any hat adult, child, baby, hand made, A HAT PERIOD. They can even be gently used but CLEAN hats. Send one or a hundred. Also Please Please Please spread the word to anyone who will help. Most questions can be answered by reading the above website & news but feel free to message me otherwise. "ONE VOICE OVER CANCER!"

Wish Info

• Posted: Jul 19, 2012 6:07 pm

• Member: pltoppel
• Member Since: Jul 15, 2012
• Hero: 5 times
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• City: Grand Rapids
• State: Michigan
• Country: United States

• Type: Want
• Wish is for: Charity
• Category: Other
• Cause: Leukemia

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• Comments: 4
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