Relay For Life Press Release
For Immediate Release - Hypnotist Lee Darrow - Cancer Survivor - Donates Show So Others Might Live
Dateline: July 29, 2006, Grayslake, IL, Relay For Life event. at midnight, Hypnotist Lee Darrow took the stage in his fourth annual appearance for the American Cancer Society's Relay For Life event, celebrating cancer survivors and helping the event to raise funds to continue research to defeat the many types of cancer that plague the earth.
In a surprise award, the events coordinators presented Darrow with a complete Survivor's Package, including a Survivor's Medal, commemmorative sash and T-shirt in congratulations of his early detection and successful treatment by surgical removal of a carcenoid tumor on his appendix, earlier this year, making him eligible for such an award as a bona fide cancer survivor.
"Honestly, all I did was go to the hospital and have my appendix removed. It wasn't until afterwards that we discovered that there was a cancerous growth on it. Fortunately, we caught it before it had spread and, according to my doctors, I am 100% cancer free. If my doctors weren't as perceptive as they are, the growth would have spread to my liver and that would have been fatal. I am extremely lucky that we caught it in time."
Darrow was also asked to autograph a memorial quilt, which had also been signed by all of the other attending cancer survivors and which was subsequently auctioned off.
The event, which runs through this morning, expects to raise several thousands of dollars for cancer research.
"I'm proud and humbled to be asked back again to perform, this year," Darrow said, "I gladly donate my show, every year to this event and now, after my close call, it means even more to me than ever."
The Relay For Life committee has stated that next year's event will be even bigger and better - and Darrow's show, which featured almost a dozen deeply hypnotized audience volunteers ranging in age from young pre-teens to a grandmother, has been a major attraction since he first appeared there in 2003.
Lee Darrow can be contacted via his web site at http://www.leedarrow.com
The Grayslake Relay For Life is an annual event, sponsored by the American Cancer Society, Grayslake, IL Chapter.
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Dateline: July 29, 2006, Grayslake, IL, Relay For Life event. at midnight, Hypnotist Lee Darrow took the stage in his fourth annual appearance for the American Cancer Society's Relay For Life event, celebrating cancer survivors and helping the event to raise funds to continue research to defeat the many types of cancer that plague the earth.
In a surprise award, the events coordinators presented Darrow with a complete Survivor's Package, including a Survivor's Medal, commemmorative sash and T-shirt in congratulations of his early detection and successful treatment by surgical removal of a carcenoid tumor on his appendix, earlier this year, making him eligible for such an award as a bona fide cancer survivor.
"Honestly, all I did was go to the hospital and have my appendix removed. It wasn't until afterwards that we discovered that there was a cancerous growth on it. Fortunately, we caught it before it had spread and, according to my doctors, I am 100% cancer free. If my doctors weren't as perceptive as they are, the growth would have spread to my liver and that would have been fatal. I am extremely lucky that we caught it in time."
Darrow was also asked to autograph a memorial quilt, which had also been signed by all of the other attending cancer survivors and which was subsequently auctioned off.
The event, which runs through this morning, expects to raise several thousands of dollars for cancer research.
"I'm proud and humbled to be asked back again to perform, this year," Darrow said, "I gladly donate my show, every year to this event and now, after my close call, it means even more to me than ever."
The Relay For Life committee has stated that next year's event will be even bigger and better - and Darrow's show, which featured almost a dozen deeply hypnotized audience volunteers ranging in age from young pre-teens to a grandmother, has been a major attraction since he first appeared there in 2003.
Lee Darrow can be contacted via his web site at http://www.leedarrow.com
The Grayslake Relay For Life is an annual event, sponsored by the American Cancer Society, Grayslake, IL Chapter.
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