Students of the Year Minneapolis

Madelyn Tax | Team Tax

Madelyn's Students of the Year Fundraiser

Jan 12, 2021

Thank you for visiting my fundraising page, welcome!

This past summer, on June 18th, after many doctors appointments and tests, I was diagnosed with Stage 4 Hodgkins Lymphoma. My life was put on a bit of a pause as I took on my battle with cancer amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. I began treatment just a few days after my 16th birthday in July and went through 4, 3-week cycles of an intense chemotherapy treatment plan. Thankfully, at the end of these four cycles, on October 2nd, my cancer was completely gone and I have been in remission since. If you would like to learn more about my cancer journey please feel free to visit my Caring Bridge site: https://www.caringbridge.org/visit/maddytax 

My battle with cancer truly changed me as a person and I knew coming out of it that I wanted to do anything I could to help others going through a similar experience. Thankfully, I was pushed in the direction of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and was nominated to be a candidate for the Students of the Year campaign. 

I encourage you to join me in supporting The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) by making a donation to my fundraising campaign. By donating to LLS, you support the many facets of LLS’s mission work from investing in groundbreaking research, providing education and support to patients, and advocating at the state and federal level for legislation to help those living with cancer. My appreciation for your support cannot be overstated — each and every dollar donated to LLS brings us closer to our goal to end blood cancer and makes an impact for cancer patients and their families.

As a global leader in the fight to end cancer, LLS is committed to doing more for blood cancer patients and families than any organization in the world. LLS’s signature fundraising campaigns drive critical support for its mission, including a nearly $1.3 billion investment in cutting edge cancer research worldwide since it was founded in 1949. Since the 1960s, survival rates for many blood cancer patients have doubled, tripled, or even quadrupled.

Every facet of LLS’s mission – research, education and support, and policy and advocacy – work in harmony to put blood cancer patients and their families first. LLS has helped millions impacted by cancer throughout its more than 70-year history, even funding breakthrough blood cancer research to advance lifesaving treatments and cures that is now helping patients with other cancers and diseases. That is why at LLS we say that beating cancer is in our blood.

Please visit my website as often as you can and share it with everyone you know who would also like to join us in the fight against cancer. Together, we have the power, the passion and the resolve to achieve a world without blood cancer. All donations are tax-deductible.

On behalf of cancer patients and their families everywhere, I sincerely thank you for your support! This organization and its mission truly mean the world to me! 

For more information about LLS, please visit lls.org

 

41 Comments

  • Hannah Vogel

    So proud of you, Maddy! Best of luck with this fundraiser! -Ms. Vogel

  • Rylan Maas

    GJ ur doing good at advertising

  • Mellissa Brandts

    Keep up the good work! :)

  • Courtney Chase

    So proud of you girl! Glad I got to know you - you're gonna kill it!!

  • Laurie Tax

    Behind you Maddy...in this and all you do. ??

  • Carter Daniels

    Hope this'll help

  • Ed and Joy Rundell

    Good luck!

  • Yoav Messinger

    We are so happy that you are doing this. Thank you much.

  • Justin Stohs

    Madelyn Tax is a stud.

  • Kolleen Fulop

    Cheering for you!

  • Justin, Angie, & Parker Bovitz

    You’ve got this!

  • Shanna Haugland

    You are brave, strong, positive, and fierce. So proud of you. Hugs to you and your family!

  • Jen Preston

    Cheers to you - you're doing GREAT things!

  • Eve Rukavina-Rembleski

    Maddy we are so glad your last appointment went so well and thank you for sharing. We would like to support you in any way we can and feel this is a good cause. Your story is inspirational to us and the way you handled yourself through it all. We hope for great things for you and your journey and your run for the organization Student of the Year!!!!! -Eve & Duke

  • Bob, Kathy, Jack and Henry

    Good luck Madelyn! Cancer doesn't stand a chance against you! Bob, Kathy, Jack and Henry

  • Joyce Harding

    Stay strong! Proud of you for doing this fundraiser.

  • Mae Rukavina

    Dear Maddy: Wishing you well and hope to see you in another play! Our best. Bea and Val Rukavina (Eve Rukavina-Rembleski's parents.

  • Mae Rukavina

    Maddy: I heard about your story through my sister Eve Rukavina-Rembleski. We are all thinking about you and wish you all the best. Stay strong. With kind regards, Mae Rukavina

  • Jill M Rukavina

    Way to Go Maddy! Eve told me about your situation. It takes a lot of energy to remain positive and hopeful when you are going through so much. Nice job and congrats on moving forward. Hugs! Eve's sister, Jill, 2x cancer survivor!

  • Darrel Bimberg

    Go Maddy! Such a great cause...

  • Melanie Winters

    Way to go Maddy! Thinking of you and wishing you all the best.

  • Nancy Mangum

    How honorable it is to see someone take their difficult experience and turn it into a beautiful gift to support others!

  • John, Tina and Adrienne Quinlan

    Way to go, Maddy!

  • Holly Pfeiffer

    All the best, Maddy!

  • Fritz Blees

    We're so proud of you Maddy and impressed by your strength!

  • WMES First Grade Team

    We love and support you!

  • Finnigan Rinke

    Love, Finnigan Rinke (kindergarten)

  • Hannah Rosholt

    We love you, Maddy! You are a rockstar! Hannah & Jake Rosholt

  • Michael and Amy Tax

    Congratulations on your overcoming Stage 4 Hodgkins Lymphoma... and taking it further by trying to help others! We are very proud of you and the young lady you are becoming with the bravery and fortitude to help others. Love, Amy, Michael, Vera, and Evan Tax

  • Shannon LaTourelle

    What a wonderful thing you are doing to pay it forward! Continued prayers for you!

  • Kathy & Rick Berscheid

    Your dedication and strength is shown in everything you do. Thank you for caring for others.

  • Kaitlin Lochner

    I'm so proud of you, Maddy! You have always been one to inspire those around you!

  • Jen Phillips April

    Good luck from Mexico! "Cousin" Hal shared your link and said you're looking to raise money from every state. We've lived in several but currently out of the country in Mexico.

  • Kelly Fogle

    What a wonderful way to turn something you've been through into such a positive! Great job!

  • Eric Nodurft

    Wild, wonderful West Virginia!

  • Kyla Pomrenke

    Keep kicking bootie Madi! ??

  • Jane Roberts

    So proud of your perseverance and determination, Madelyn! You are a Shining Light for everyone in your life! May God’s continued Blessings shower upon you, sweet girl! ????????????????

  • Hope Masterson

    You Go Maddie!!

  • Martina Prior

    Maddy Tax

  • Maria Watne

    So proud of you, Maddy! Way to go! 🥰

  • Madeline Peterson

    Love from Utah!! Hit those 50 states!

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