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Wednesday, December 5, 2012

‘100 Days for Sarah’ Supports Plainfield Teen Battling Leukemia

A Dec. 15 benefit is scheduled for 19-year-old Sarah Wielgos.

Nineteen-year-old Sarah Wielgos plans to spend her career taking care of people. But first, friends hope the community will rally around the Plainfield teen, who was diagnosed with leukemia just as she began her sophomore year as a nursing student at St. Louis University. Supporters have launched the “100 Days for Sarah” campaign in an effort to help offset costs for the teen and her family after Sarah undergoes a bone marrow transplant at Loyola University Hospital later this month. Her little sister, eighth-grader Mary Wielgos, will be Sarah’s bone marrow donor. “For 100 days after [the transplant], she’s required to live within a four-mile radius of the hospital,” event organizer Greg Rodriguez said. “You’re almost kind of in isolation…

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Thursday, September 6, 2012

Local Resident Hosting Bears Kick-Off Fundraiser For Leukemia Walk

The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s "Light the Night" Walk will take place on October 20 in Elmhurst.

Mike Livorsi was diagnosed with a rare form Leukemia in February 2010. It is called Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia and affects 1500-2000 Americans a year. A few months after Livorsi, a Montgomery resident, was diagnosed another local woman was found to have it as well. “Barely 25 years ago, this type of leukemia had a 100 percent mortality rate,” said Livorsi. “Doctors did not know how to treat it. Today, the success rate is 80-90 percent, and that is because of research to help cancer patients.” Livorsi himself is a survivor of Leukemia, and credits it to the research and advancement in medicine. That’s why he’ll be participating once more in the annual Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s "Light the Night" Walk. The walk is on October 20 at …

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