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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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