As most of you know by now, Erica is in need of a bone marrow transplant. For Erica, and countless other leukemia patients, it is crucial that people get tested.

To find out how and where to donate, please visit http://www.marrow.org/.

If you are organizing a bone marrow drive in

Erica's name,

please e-mail me (murphy_jamie@hotmail.com)

and I will post it on this website.

In response to numerous requests about how to help, Erica's friend Jonathon set-up an amazon.com wishlist for Erica. If you are interested in helping Erica pass the time while in the hospital but not quite sure how to help, then visit Erica's amazon wish list at: http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/registry.html?ie=UTF8&type=wishlist&id=2CG1564OG1630

A message from Jamie, Jon, and Ted:

Hello Murray Supporters!!!

A few weeks back, the three of us got together to brainstorm different ways that we could help Erica out. Since health insurance only covers so much with an illness like this, we wanted to figure out a way to reduce the burden. Having seen the overwhelming number of hits to Erica's personal blog, and knowing that she would never ask for this kind of help herself, we decided that some sort of online giving page would be a good place to start.

We know that there are many people out there who know and love Erica and want to do something to help out but don't know how to go about doing so . . . that is why we have created this blog.

Below are a number of ways that you can lend your support directly to Erica, and/or to various Leukemia & Lymphoma charities.

First, there is the option of donating money directly to a PayPal account that we have set-up for Erica. Second, if you would rather sell something on EBay and donate the proceeds to Erica, you can advertise it on this blog and then transfer the proceeds to Erica's PayPal account. The funds that are generated from both of these options will go directly towards paying Erica's medical bills.

Other options include supporting people who are participating in the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Team-in-Training events, or donating directly to the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.

The "get well" cards, the e-mails, the text messages and the personal visits that we all send Erica's way mean the world to her, and this blog is in no way meant to replace or overshadow them. This is simply another way for all of us to show her how much we love her.

Please feel free to post to this blog, however, if you would like to send a message to Erica, please post on her blog at ericamurray.blogspot.com

Thank you for all of your support!!!!

Jamie Murphy
Jonathan Murray
Ted Sheets

Donate directly to Erica via

Pay Pal

In order to send money via Pay Pal, you need to set-up an account, this only takes a few minutes. Once you have an account set-up, you can send money directly to Erica by entering her e-mail address, murray.erica@gmail.com

Leukemia and Lymphoma Society

"Team In Training" Fundraisers

If you are participating in a Leukemia and Lymphoma Society

event and would like to share it with the group, please post to this blog.

Feel free to include links to your personal fundraising page!!