All Will Be Well. Can you spare some change?
My sister Dawn (“Beaker”) is a nurse and has a PhD in something involving cancer research. I did help her by proofreading her dissertation, but I truly didn’t understand a word of it. If you can figure this out, then you’ll know what she does.
All I got from reading the beast was that she uses stuff like this:
to come up with data like this:
And she figured out that cancer researchers were doing something terribly wrong in their experiments.
While Beaker enjoys the test tubes and whatever, she also really enjoys working with patients. So while she worked on her PhD, she moonlighted at the 2 Bles Hematology/Blood and Marrow Transplant Unit at Georgetown Hospital. She’s met some incredibly brave patients during her time there, and Dan is one of them.
Back in June of 2009, Danny Lyons was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL), a blood cancer. Dan and his wife Hanna blog at All Will Be Well. So yea, the title is a great play on the acronym for the disease, and also the name of a song. You can tell what Dan and Hanna are like by just listening to the song.
Dan and Hanna are actually in Seattle right now, where Dan got a transplant at a hospital where Dawn used to work. Hopefully, Dawn’s old pals took good care of Dan. But the fact of the matter is that health care costs serious money, and the body can’t heal while the mind is worried about finances.
Dan’s cousin started a fundraising campaign for him. It would be so great if you could contribute a few dollars to help out, and truly, anything would help. Click here and tell ’em the Betters sisters sent ya. And listen to the song.
The Gabe Dixon Band | All Will Be Well from Concord Music Group on Vimeo.
