A Worthy Cause

Many times on this blog, we have marveled at the amazing support we have received from all our family, friends and loved ones.  We continue to be humbled by those who put aside their personal lives and go out of the way to help us.  This extends well beyond our home and to the homes, and hearts of all pediatric and adult cancer patients and survivors.   As you all know, our local gym and their amazing staff and members have been a constant source of support for our family these last 7.5 months.  To go along with #CombatForCooper, we are honored to call Keith Bauer our friend and a member of our BodyCombat family.  Keith has been running marathons over the past years as part of the Mario Lemieux Foundation either in honor or remembrance of a particular cancer patient in hopes to help raise money for valuable research to go towards cancer research for underfunded programs.  You all may not know this but only 4% of cancer funding goes towards pediatric cancer research!   We were extremely honored this year when Keith approached us to ask if he could run for Cooper this year in the Pittsburgh Marathon as his "Run for a Reason"!  Keith has setup a donation page in Coopers honor to help raise money and awareness for cancer patients and their families.  If you have the ability, please consider helping him reach his goal!  His site is copied here if you want to learn more!  Thank you all for the continued support for us and for our friend!



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Love,
The Trueblood Family


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