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 I’ve been swamped lately and haven’t taken the time to blog for some time, but this is definately something I have time to stop and share with everyone.
I don’t know Tom very well, our paths cross several times a year at Utah networking and other events (he’s a regular at the CTO Breakfast), but I […]

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The Serenity Foundation’s first National Bloggers Blood Drive was a big, fun success!  We collected 23 units of blood which, by the numbers from ARUP, calculates to saving 69 lives - not bad for a quickly organized event! 

 I’ve uploaded the photos I took of several donors, they’re available on my Flickr Feed here.
Twelve Horses hosted […]

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Be a Hero, Save a Life, Donate Blood!
This is just an RSS reminder about the National Bloggers Blood Drive today, if you’re in Utah please come join us at Twelve Horses in Draper any time from 3 - 8 pm today.  There will be movies, games, snacks and a couple prize drawings along with hanging […]

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It’s almost time for The Serenity Foundation’s first quarterly National Bloggers Blood Drive! 
The goal of the NBBD is to hold local blood drives in multiple locations around the world that occur at the same time allowing live tweeting/flickring and blogging to go on.  This being the first event and being planned with very little lead […]

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I’m really excited about this and I think it’s going to be REALLY cool! 
July 30th will be the first quarterly National Bloggers Blood Drive, this is a new project we’re organizing at The Serenity Foundation. 
As I mentioned in my previous post, I’ve been working on organizing a new twist on blood drives and blogger/twitter meetups.  […]

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This is Day 39 of my baby, Serenity, being diagnosed with and treated for Leukemia.  Day 37 is here. 
Serenity’s life was saved because people donated blood.  I have a lot of guilt about that - I have MAJOR needle-phobia and have always avoided blood donation.  But as I watched Serenity bravely face getting poked by […]

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This is Day 37 of my baby, Serenity being diagnosed with and treated for Leukemia.  Day 36 is here.
K, I admit that I’m probably, maybe a teeny little bit biased here - but I think these are super cute pictures of Serenity (probably not quite as cute as your kid though ).  I’m calling […]

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This is day 38 of my baby, Serenity being diagnosed with and treated for Leukemia.  Day 36 is here. 
Yesterday we had another clinic visit, Serenity got 3 Chemo treatments; an IV one, an intrathecal one (in her spine) and an oral one. 

Some things to note in that picture: She’s wearing her new medic alert bracelet […]

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