My wife’s leukemia has returned, our #JennStrong2 cancer battle has begun

easier the second time around..

And if you’ve followed our journey, you know that we’ve used the year of her good fortune and good health well.

We spent it trying to save other lives.

If you haven’t read about our 30-30 #GiveASpit MLB summer journey to swab folks for the bone marrow registry, please take some time and be inspired.

Here is Chapter 1 of our baseball tour.

Here is Chapter 2 of our baseball tour.

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As a matter of fact, we fell back into our old lives – at least for a little while. Long enough to appreciate the fact that we’re alive and long enough to probably take it all for granted again.

And now we’re back in the fight of her life – again.

We appreciate all of the kindness and concern and respectfully ask for a few things from the thousands of well-wishers that we’ll be hearing from in the coming days.

Jenn will need another donor and another miracle to survive this and that involves another human being to save her life. Please get on the bone marrow registry and share our message for anyone young (and of color) in your world. Please support our friends at There Goes My Hero, who helped us survive the first diagnosis. There’s a great story here on what we do and why we do it that Sports Illustrated wrote this summer during the baseball tour.

So many people gave us gifts and sent items on the first journey and we’d respectfully request that we not get any packages, cards or gifts. Your presence and words and well-wishes are very appreciated but we’d really rather not have so many packages and “things” during our journey. And please, please don’t send flowers! She can’t have them! Send your love and thoughts! That’s what we really need to get through this!

OR…IF YOU MUST BE SUPER KIND AND CHARITABLE…AND YOU’VE ASKED US THAT AWESOME QUESTION:

“What can we do for you?”

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This is how you can really help us:

We have developed an amazing app to shop online that benefits There Goes My Hero at giveaspit.com. If you do your holiday shopping (or any other shopping) using this app, you are helping our cause GREATLY. So please download it and use it! It’s very cool and is very easy to use! A nice chunk of any spends on Amazon and a zillion other big businesses goes directly to our charity partners at There Goes My Hero.

Please do this now! (Before you forget!)

WWW.GIVEASPIT.COM

Prayers, thoughts, well wishes, kind words, spirit, mojo and love are what got us through the first time. We are very blessed to have you care about us and support our second journey with this insidious disease.

And please, please, please – kiss someone and tell them that you love them today.

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One minute you’re planning a Thursday night football game in Pittsburgh and a long, weekend romantic getaway beach vacation – and the next minute you’re planning for bone marrow biopsies, a port placement, a life of Purell and no touching, hugging or physical contact of any kind for the next six months and beyond.

One weekend you’re in Denver doing the Rocky Mountain High thing at a football game and two weeks later you have cancer again.

We’ve been planning my birthday weekend in San Francisco two weeks from now and seeing the last stadium that we’ve never seen in Santa Clara and planning to return for the Super Bowl in February. Now, she’ll be bald on the third Sunday of October and fighting for her life for the next year and watching Super Bowl 50 on television with Kitty.

Four days ago I was watching multi-millionaire idiots strangle each other in a dugout in D.C. and talking about a bad defense and a 0-3 Baltimore Ravens team and the pending turmoil of the Baltimore Orioles, and now I’m once again navigating the pathway to keep my wife alive over the next 6 to 12 months.

Our story remains unwritten and unfinished.

But I’ll be writing more. And learning more. And getting better. And I’ll be by my wife’s side every step of the way.

We’re a team – now more than ever in our 13th year of marriage.

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I’ll be on the radio all day every day. I wrote a blog about my commitment to Baltimore sports and my craft last week.

Jenn will be fighting for her life. Again.

We’ll remain #BmorePositive about her outcome and we’ll keep her on the safe side of the street.

Thanks for your concern and your care. Keep the faith!

And please take a moment to respect and appreciate your life and health and that of your loved ones.

We appreciate your love…

Namaste,

Nes and Jenn