About
The Give All Project is an organization that was founded to create awareness for cancer treatment, make donations for cancer treatment, and give inspiration to those battling cancer.
Our mission is to provide solutions, whether financial or spiritual, and find hope in times of healing.
Positivity and strength are born out of the struggles! My own journey is the beginning of the Give All Project.
My story began nine years ago with a routine doctor’s visit where they found that my white blood cell count was elevated. My doctor asked me if I had been feeling bad and I had not. He followed up with me the next week, same thing as the prior week’s visit except my white blood cell count was continuing to rise. It was then that he decided to send me to an oncologist where I later was diagnosed with CLL (Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia). I, like most people, knew very little about the big “C”. I have now learned so much about cancer and the nuances of dealing with it as a survivor, that I wanted to find some way for my experiences to impact the lives of others; no matter how big or small.
My oncologist decided to start me on a treatment of intravenous chemotherapy consisting of a total of three straight days each month for six months total. He said the result of this treatment was to give me at least five years in remission. Well, he was close! I was in remission for four years and then my white blood count started rising again. So, off I went again for round two! Another six months of chemo, but this time the cocktail was a bit stronger; in fact, I had a reaction to one of the drugs and it caused me to have hemolytic anemia. When you already have a blood cancer, hemolytic anemia is NOT what you want! This caused my hemoglobin to drop all the way down to 4.5. Nearly 10 pints of blood later, I was better but didn’t exactly receive my full chemotherapy with all of the associated issues. None the less, my doctor was able to get me into remission again, but only for two years on the second round. Most recently, August 2020, a third diagnosis came, and I received six months of intravenous chemotherapy once again, and another bout with hemolytic anemia. This time, getting away with having only eight pints of blood to recover. With each round of blood donations, it always took a good 24-48 hours to find the blood type I needed because the first round of chemo gave my blood type what they call a warm antigen. I completed the intravenous treatments and now taking oral chemotherapy for 24 months. After much prayer and positive thinking, I believe in my heart of hearts that I am healed and will be finished with chemo forever.
I want people to know that cancer changed my life for the better. Yes, it was and still is tough and I still have up and down days; BUT I know that God’s plan is perfect, and he is using my trials for His good. I no longer take even one breath for granted. I want both people living with cancer and even those who are not to know that His ways are greater than our ways. God laid it on my heart to start a project in hopes to help people navigate and deal with the trials in their own lives. The Give All Project is not just my project to help serve others, but a project for mankind to find the peace, hope, healing and solutions, whether financially or spiritually, in all parts of life. When you purchase any GAP merchandise, a percentage of proceeds will benefit a cancer-supporting cause and/or person. Giving it Our All to fill the GAP(s) in Your Life.
Psalm 46:1-2
God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore, we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea.