Welcome, and thank you for visiting my fundraising page! 

I'm Alex, a 15-year-old leukemia survivor. When I was only 6 years old, I was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL). My mom and I actually received the diagnosis on Valentine's Day. The news came as kind of a shock- I was unusally tired, with small fevers here and there, but overall I felt healthy. Less than 24-hours after my blood work came back positive for cancer, I started chemotherapy. The next three and a half years were spent battling this aggressive form of leukemia. Many nights were spent in the ER, and even more nights at the local hospital.

Treatment was difficult and lonely. I didn't have the stamina to keep up with my friends, and all my strength went to fighting the cancer. As a kid under the age of 10, I consumed countless pills, high-dose steroids, had weekly and monthly infusions and quarterly spinal taps.

Even after my cancer went into remission, it took my body years to recover from the treatment.

It has been five years since my treatment ended, and I am FINALLY starting to feel better. I enjoy bike riding and rock climbing- things I didn't have the energy for as a child dealing with cancer. I am so grateful for the time I have and am looking forward to the future.

Many children are not as lucky as me. 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 more than $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!

For more information about LLS, please visit lls.org.