Megan Cooper
March 6, 1984 - January 29, 1993

Information about Megan:

Megan was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) or the “good” leukemia, as Megan called it, in 1989 at age 5. After almost 3 years of chemotherapy and remission, Megan relapsed on Mother’s Day 1992. Megan was very fortunate that both of her siblings were a perfect match for a bone marrow transplant. While the transplant successfully cured Megan’s leukemia, Megan spent most of the next six months in the hospital and died from complications of a head bleed 5 weeks before her 9th birthday.

Through studies it was discovered that children may have been given too much radiation, which weakens the blood vessels in the brain, to get them ready for transplant. Through the work of Andy’s Chapter of Hope, which is part of the Leukemia Research Foundation, donations are used to help find a cure for this terrible disease and improve the quality of life during and after treatment.

A poem dedicated to Megan:

Fear and Sorrow may carry each day,
For loved ones who live helplessly we cry.
Each victim's grasp on life taken away,
They stand, head held high, knowing they're soon to die.

Scared, we don't know what to say,
what to do, how to help.

We held her hand.
We were her friends.
We showed her that we cared.

We now stand, with that little angel watching over us,
Hoping and praying for the day
They find a cure to make Cancer go away.

~Kristin Kratochvil

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