Ralph's Leukemia Battle

In October of 2015, Ralph Gallo was your average 22 year old with his whole life ahead of him. Ralph started experiencing leg and back pain out of the blue and asked his mother to take him to the Emergency Room. This trip changed his world forever. He was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL), a disease that is usually diagnosed in younger children. His mother, Karen, immediately transported him to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City and since that fateful October day, Ralph has been enduring a rigorous regime of chemotherapy that has left him unable to work or continue school. Even with all the chemo treatments, this month Ralph is scheduled to have a bone marrow transplant. A transplant that will cost one million dollars. Throughout all this Ralph's mother, Karen, has been taking care of him full time while also working full time as she carries the health insurance for her three sons. Karen is a single mother who has raised her children for the last 13 years on her own. To make matters worse, if that's at all possible, Karen has recently been diagnosed herself with breast cancer. The struggles this family endures is heartbreaking. My goal is to raise anything that would assist them as they continue their fights against cancer.