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Inspiring and hot off the screen from the OMG! 2010 Cancer Summit for young adults.

We’ve kept things pretty quiet the past two months as Jonathan needed to lay low and rest, continuing to recoup and battling through the intense post-transplant fatigue and painful, frustrating GVH that’s reasserted itself, bringing up a whole new treatment regimen.

But today is a pretty major milestone we wanted to share with everyone — bone marrow biopsy day. We’ve been doing our traditional good luck Beyonce ritual this morning. Please share your good vibes and send some elbow taps  Jonathan’s way for the AML-free results we’re hoping for.

Sunday is the highly anticipated OMG! 2010 Cancer Summit for young adults, hosted by the great team at i2y.org. Team Haupt is headed to the conference, really looking forward to talking with other YAs who are energized about raising the visibility of the unique issues young adults patients, survivors and their caregivers are faced with and the need for more cancer research focused on YAs as a specific population. It’s a great program of speakers including fellow transplant warrior Ethan Zohn — who I had a chance to speak with at the recent Partnerships in Clinical Trials conference –  Diane Balma from Stand Up 2 Cancer, and a host of patient advocates, online cancer activists, authors, and YA cancer researchers. We’ll post highlights from the summit here, so check back over the weekend for more.

We are sending massivce amounts of love and congratulations to Lynne and Brain, Team Haupt’s Boston Co-Captains and chief bone marrow heroes, on their wedding today.  It’s gonna be a huge celebration tonight!
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Our 2nd Annual Flip You, Leukemia! Charity Flip Cup Tournament and bone marrow drive yesterday was a huge success! Team Haupt and friends registered more than 100 new potential bone marrow donors and the turnout and donations  for Flip You was simply amazing. Especially thrilled that Jonathan could be there in person and help to kick off the event.

Our thank to the teams and fans alike for being part of the day, to our fantastic crew of volunteers for making it possible, to DKMS for its amazing work helping leukemia patients find their matches, and to the great team at RFD for once again letting us host the event.  Most of all, we want to thank Flip You co-captains, Whitney & Linnea, for organizing the events and ensuring its even bigger success the 2nd time around. It would not have been possible without you!

Funds raised will go to support Team Haupt’s ongoing bone marrow drives and awareness raising efforts and to helping fellow blood cancer patients (like Tara and Lindsay) who are still searching for their lifesaving marrow matches. Check out Team Haupt’s video as well — thanks to Joe A)!

Keep flippin’ and see you for Flip You 3!

One of the best organizations we’ve gotten involved with the past year is i[2]y — I’m Too Young for This! — that provides support, humor and an amazing community for young adults living with cancer — and is the home of The Stupid Cancer show.

Give Cancer the Bird is one of i[2]y’s fantastically sarcastic awareness initiatives. Zac Efron has jumped in as their celeb spokesperson with an contest going on now for the largest group twitpic giving cancer the bird. We were so proud to have everyone at yesterday’s Flip You, Leukemia! tournament join in the action by putting on their Stupid Cancer bracelets and helping Team Haupt flip off cancer!

 Join us tomorrow for our first bone marrow drive of 2010 and 2^nd Annual Flip You, Leukemia! Charity Flip Cup Tournament. Help Team Haupt Save Lindsay & Tara and Say Flip You, Leukemia! 

You don’t have to play flip cup to attend — fans and friends of Team Haupt are encouraged to drop by throughout the afternoon to show their support, get involved with the drive and cheer on the teams. Saturday’s donor drive is in honor of young adult cancer ninjas like our friends Lindsay and Tara who are battling blood cancer and still searching for the full marrow match to save their lives.

Two great events – One amazing cause!

RSVP and more info on Facebook.  All the details are below.

Two young adult friends of Team Haupt are also fighting blood cancers.  Tara has AML and Lindsay has Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma.  Both of them need our help right away.  With your donations and participation on the national bone marrow registry will help their fight.

If you’ll be in DC this coming Saturday, March 27th PLEASE join us at RFD in Chinatown for Team Haupt’s bone marrow drive in honor of blood cancer patients everywhere.

Saturday is our 2nd Annual Flip You, Leukemia! Charity Flip Cup Fundraiser also at RFD. So come out on the 27th, bring your friends and join us for two awesome events for one amazing cause!  You don’t have to play flip cup to attend — Fans and Friends of Team Haupt are encouraged to drop by throughout the afternoon to show their support, get involved with the drive and cheer on the teams.

• WHEN: Saturday, March 27th
• Team Haupt Bone Marrow Donor Drive: 12:00-4:00 PM
• Flip You, Leukemia! Charity Flip Cup Tournament: Starts at 2:00 PM
• WHERE: RFD – 810 7th Street, NW, Washington, DC  (Penn Quarter/Chinatown Metro. Private entrance on 8^th & H Sts., NW)
• DONATION:  $10 to play, $5 fans & friends ~ no cost to take part in donor drive
• RSVP: Visit us on Facebook to sign up!

Click the links above for more details on all the fun and how you can get involved.

We’re still looking for volunteers to join Team Haupt’s Street Team to hand out fliers Saturday morning in Penn Quarter/Chinatown to encourage participation at the donor drive. Contact us if you want to help out.

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