The ordeal of having to face one’s mortality, and to fight and struggle for one’s very survival - in the face of a medical ordeal with long odds - would be a daunting challenge for anyone. To be ensnared in that physical, mental, and emotional predicament for nearly a decade sounds much like a life of purgatory on earth. And to bear all of these challenges during the formative years of one’s life, when one is supposed to become educated, learn maturity, and plan for a future in adulthood, seems a cruel and bitter irony indeed. But sometimes a desperate scenario such as this happens to seemingly undeserving people, and that is exactly what befell Marc Lehmann only a few months after his high school graduation.

In the supremely arduous years after a devastating Acute Myeloid Leukemia diagnosis, Marc bore up his considerable constitution and summoned every ounce of patience, pain tolerance, and grit to stare down that mortality and secure his survival. For years, it seemed the disease and Marc fought to a draw. He paid, day in and day out, whatever toll was required to arrive at tomorrow.

During the entire ordeal, a certainty became apparent to him. Many of those hard-earned tomorrows would never have happened without considerable HELP!  That help was most evident in the form of fellow human beings - some of whose exceptional, caring humanity and dedicated proficiency went unnoticed by most in the din of the medical machinery we call a hospital. But it was noticed, and supremely appreciated by Marc. It is for him that this Foundation hopes to recognize and make known special physicians and caregivers. Individuals who are unafraid to aid and empower fellow living souls to navigate a storm that one may not survive for now, and eventually will never survive.

Be it known that he was thankful!