WEBSITE: www.stepstomarrow.com

Jada Bascom, my grandaughter, was born with acute myeloid leukemia; she had a bone marrow transplant when she was 6 months old. Jada is in remission and living happily with her parents in Deer Park, WA.

In order to express our gratitude to the innumerable people it took to save Jada’s life and to support our family through this crisis we began the Jada Bascom Foundation. The foundation is sponsoring Steps To-Marrow, in which I, Jada’s grandmother, Jeana Moore, will be walking from Seattle to Los Angeles and Los Angeles to New York City, to raise awareness around the need for bone marrow donors and to recruit potential bone marrow donors for the National Bone Marrow Registry.

We hope that through our efforts many people will find their match just like Jada did.

Sunday, March 7, 2010

San Ardo, CA


San Ardo, CA
Dear Friends, 2/27/10
Walked 18.5 miles today from King City to San Ardo. Sun and rain came together and manifest the most beautiful rainbow. A treasured moment.
I had arranged with the California Highway Patrol in King City to pitch my tent in the car port of the Sheriff's substation in San Ardo. As I was pitching my tent children popped their heads over the fence to find out more about the lady who was going to spend the night in her tent.
It was really sweet. One young man named Ramon was particularly interested in the walk and learning more about what it means to be a bone marrow donor.
He invited me over to introduce me to his grandmother. I had such a good time with the Vaca family. More treasured moments!

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