Help Susan Keefer fight T-Cell Leukemia...

Our cousin, daughter, sister and friend Susan Keefer now is waging her second battle against Adult T-Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia. And she is in great need of our support.

Doctors at Johns Hopkins University have planned for Susan a path forward to fight this rare and aggressive form of blood cancer, yet that has required her to move from Pennsylvania to Baltimore for the next several months.

Susan was first diagnosed two years ago and went into remission following several rounds of chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant from her sister and life-saving donor Tracy. After moving back to Pennsylvania, Susan's leukemia returned this spring.

She is not currently in remission and is in the hospital. Under the care of Dr. Jonathan Webster at Hopkins, Susan is again having intensive chemotherapy with the aim of going back into remission.

The goal will be for another transplant, an approach Dr. Webster sees as necessary but possible. Yet the next few months will be incredibly taxing, physically, emotionally and financially. Once Susan's initial weeks of treatment in the hospital are done, she will be renting an apartment in Baltimore so she can have access to continuing medical care. Though the treatment is partially covered by her insurance, the treatment is very expensive. She still will be saddled with medical as well as living expenses.

Please help us show any comfort we can to Susan as she continues this journey. She is very loved and not alone.

If you would like to help in a non-monetary way, please consider donating blood, plasma or by becoming a bone marrow donor by joining the National Marrow Donor Program at bethematch.com.

Thank you in advance for your support!