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Someday Is Today! Day 3 of Blood Cancer and Childhood Cancer Awareness Month

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The overall five-year relative survival rate for leukemia has more than quadrupled since 1960.

From 1960 to 1963, the five-year relative survival rate for patients with leukemia was 14 percent. From 1975 to 1977, the five-year relative survival rate for the total population with leukemia was 34.1 percent, and from 2005 to 2011, the overall relative survival rate was 61.7 percent.

Research funded by the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society has been a major player in this effort.  What was once practically a death sentence is now a promising fight with the odds in your favor.

No donation is too small!

http://pages.lightthenight.org/gat/StLouis16/teamcutler

Thank you for everyone who has donated already!  Please feel free to share!

 

Someday is Today!

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Every 9 minutes, someone in the US dies from a blood cancer.

Please consider donating no matter how small.  Someday is Today!

http://pages.lightthenight.org/gat/StLouis16/teamcutler

Say Hello To His Little Friend

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Hard to believe but Mason turned 11 on Monday.  Still continues to impress me as he continues to grow into such a loving, caring, funny and smart young man.  Here is a video of one of my favorite gifts he received (probably doesn’t rank real high on Melanie’s list).

 

And here is a photo of his living little friend that I would put at the top of Melanie’s list.  This is Joey, his dwarf hamster, which was a gift from Cutler.

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Child Cancer/Blood Cancer Awareness Month

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Every month is set aside to be a specific awareness month for one cancer or another, September happens to be the busiest month of all 12 months focusing in on five different cancers including blood cancers (leukemia/lymphoma) as well as it is the Child Cancer awareness month.  So, in order to kick off this month right, I am here to remind you of our upcoming Light The Night Walk helping raising funds to help grow awareness, patient and family support, and most importantly help eradicate this nasty disease.  My goal for the month of September, aside from raising funds is to provide you with a fact per day helping you see the true impact that cancer has across the world while mixing in the successes that the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society has helped drive.

Fact 1 of 30:

Every 3 minutes someone in the United States is diagnosed with a blood cancer.

Someday we hope this number will lesson.  Please consider donating no matter how small.  Someday is Today!

http://pages.lightthenight.org/gat/StLouis16/teamcutler

Light The Night 2016

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It’s that time of year again where I frantically start my last minute fund raising for our annual Light the Night walk where we raise funds to help the fight against blood cancers in honor of Cutler’s successful battle against leukemia and in memory of my dear Grandmother Fricke who battled lymphoma.  No donation is too small and any sharing of our effort is greatly appreciated as we continue to push for the cause so that no one will have to go through what Cutler did when he was only 6 months old.

Thank you in advance for your support!

http://pages.lightthenight.org/gat/StLouis16/teamcutler

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Our honored hero, Cutler now 7 years old and almost 7 years cancer free!

No Hippy Here

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While eating dinner Cutler is discussing his usual views on how to make money, which according to him the best approach is to study hard at college. Very proud that he is developing this mentality already but then he throws out “Are you alright having a nerd in the family? Because I am going to be a nerd and not a hippy.” 

Waiting For The Modem To Connect

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Sitting in the customer lounge at Toyota waiting for some work to be done on my car and this guy comes into the children’s lounge (the boys are with me) to use an outlet and connect with his laptop.  He was having all kinds of trouble just getting to the internet and he asks me what browser I am using.  I tell him I am using explorer thinking to myself that it is odd that he would be having trouble using chrome or Firefox but he says “I guess I will try that since I can’t get AOL to work”.  AOL?  I am now waiting to hear his dial-up connection trying to work.

Side note: I just played this and the boys looked at me totally bewildered.  We are now having a discussion about the old days of dial up speeds and how slow the internet used to be as they stream video to the ipad.  Next we will discuss snail mail.

 

 

 

Our Little Fish

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Last night was Cutler’s first swim meet…ever.  He was so confident in his speed that he decided to give the other poor fools he was competing against a sizeable head start.  He says he finished second in the heat, potentially supported by this video, but his ribbon was for third.  Expecting a quicker start next week.

The Great Ketchup Mustard Challenge

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Not sure where it came from, but while having dinner on Saturday night Cutler came up with the idea to mix mustard and ketchup on a nacho chip.  He started by saying I wonder how it would taste and I offered him $.25 to give it a try, he countered with $100.  After a few minutes of tough negotiations we settled at $1.  For those not really in touch with Cutler’s eating prowess, you need to know that him even considering this was a huge step so I really didn’t think it was going to happen.  He was so proud of himself and was beaming the rest of the night.

https://youtu.be/WP4fipJ-crI

Someone Is Not Excited About Turning 6 Tomorrow 

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This kid WILL NOT SHUT UP! Seven hours of driving leaves us exhausted but fills him with energy. In case it’s not clear, he needed to shower so he could be clean for his birthday. He also needed a good night sleep so he could be ready for his birthday.