totally baldacious

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Hi, did you guys read , in the LLS news letter about the fund raiser, Totally

Baldacious?

I signed up , I have not completed my website yet as I need a new picture.

I am not asking for your donations, I am asking you, if you didn't see it, to go

to the LLS website and read about it.  You decide how much you think you can

raise, and if you raise it, YOU SHAVE YOUR HEAD!

My kids all laugh at me, I wear my hair so short it almost IS bald.  I've worn

it this way over 20 years.  My daughter sent me to her hair dresser to get a new

look.  On the way there I dropped in at the bar she worked at, had a couple of

vodkas, and went for the hair cut.  His name was Sam, and talked me into a

spiked doo. I think the vodka had a little to do with it.

Anyway, he commented on how well it looked so short, and I said, " I would go

bald if I could get away with it, I  would just wear nice makeup and great big

earrings! "   He kidded me about it for the next 5 years, and one day I went in

and said, " I should be more careful what I wish for, I have been dx with

leukemia, and I very well might end up bald, guess I better go get some

earrings! "

But I never did lose my hair.  I have been in 6 trials, plus the Interferon in

the early days, and heve never lost one single hair. He, unfortunately has

passed away from cancer.

So, now I am going to shave it off, get new make up and buy some gorgeous

earrings,

whether or not I raise the money  ( I am trying for $1,000.00, they want a

minimum of $250.00)  I raised $2000.00  the first tea party I had, $6000.00 the

second, and $10,000.00

the last one I had.  So I am quite confident I will surpass my goal.

I am waiting for my grandson to take a new picture of me and post it on the

site, then I will direct you to it, and, ha ha, I will post one when I have

finished the fund raiser.

This is getting to be a long post, but speaking of fund raisers,I am going to be

in NYC in April for a Parkinson's fund raiser, it is a marathon, or some kind of

walk in Central Park.

My son in law Mickey has Parkinson's, and he and I will participate in wheel

chairs!!!

That's all folks!  who's got the guts to go bald?  check it out, Bobby

a ( Bobby ) Doyle, dob 12/17/29

Brecksville, Ohio, USA

DX 5/1995

Interferon 9 weeks/Hydroxyurea 5 years

02/2000 to 06/2002 Gleevec trial, OHSU

06/2002 Gleevec/Trisenox Trial, OHSU

06/2003 Gleevec/Zarnestra Trial, OHSU

04/2004 Sprycel Trial, MDACC, CCR in 10 months

04/2008 XL228 Trial, U of Mich.

01/2009 PCR 5.69

04/2009 Ariad Trial AP24534

09/2009 PCR 0.017

11/2009 PCR 0.034

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