If you are the mother of a child with leukemia or lymphoma, you know how it feels to go from being able to fix all of your child's scrapes and bruises one day to grappling with a whole new world of doctors and nurses, chemo, radiation therapy and blood counts the next.

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) is here to support mothers with information and resources. Please think of us as an extention of the support system you may already have. These resources can help you and your child as you look forward to recovery.

• Learn more on our web page about Childhood Blood Cancers.
• Free Booklet: Coping With Childhood Leukemia and Lymphoma – You can download a .pdf or order a free printed copy of this booklet that provides guidance from oncology social workers, nurses and pychologists on how to deal with a pediatric cancer diagnosis.
• Free Booklet: Learning and Living with Cancer – Practical advice to help you advocate for your child’s educational needs.
• Free Coloring Books – You may want to download or order Pictures of My Journey and/or The Stem Cell Transplant Coloring Book.
• Free Fact Sheet: Long-Term and Late Effects of Treatment for Childhood Leukemia or Lymphoma
• Free Booklet: Financial Health Matters – Learn how to deal more effectively with some of the financial challenges faced by families dealing with cancer.
• LLS Blood Cancer Discussion Boards – Sometimes one of the best things to do for yourself is to connect with other parents that are dealing or have dealt with pediatric cancer. Join the conversation in the My Child Has Cancer board.

We have many other resources which you can learn about by going to www.LLS.org or calling and speaking to one of our information specialists at (800) 955-4572.

Not a mother, but want to say thank you to one? Learn more about how you can honor a special mother in your life this Mother’s Day.

It's been some time since we've been able to upgrade the Discussion Board platform that has been so popular among our patient and caregiver visitors, so it's with great joy that we announce the launch of our new platform today! The LLS Blood Cancer Discussion Boards are the latest addition to the LLS Community ( see: community.lls.org ), the social networking site that we launched last year for our Team In Training colleagues. In the interim, community spaces were created for Light The Night and Hike For Discovery. The LLS Blog and @LLS, our marketing and promotion blog, were also launched from this platform. However, the biggest and (we anticipate) most active community space with be the LLS Blood Cancer Discussion Boards.

Our Discussion Boards have a new look and feel:

What's New?

Like the old Discussion Boards, our Information Resource Center (IRC) staff will continue to monitor this community. Unlike the old Boards, the new Boards offer a number of enhancements for everyone who registers at community.lls.org:

• Create a single profile for all of the community spaces on  community,lls.org
• Customize your experience and see only the discussions you want to see. Learn more about how you can do this as a registered participant.
• See something offensive or posted in the wrong board? You can now easily report posts to our monitors and moderators. Learn more about how you can do this as a registered participant.
• Tag your content so that others can find topics they are interested in more easily. Learn more about how you can take advantage of tags.
• Spell check, Really Simple Syndication (RSS), send as email and much more are now available to you to make your online experience with LLS more enjoyable and intuitive. Learn more about how to get started in the Getting Started Guide.

If you're concerned that this might take some getting used to, read our update on the reasons behind why we chose to move and change software in the Comment on the Discussion Boards section on the LLS Blood Cancer Discussion Boards.

What's to become of the old Discussion Boards?

With the transition to the new platform, we will be leaving the old Discussion Boards in a view-only format through July 1st. At that time we will remove those files from our site.

Questions?

If you have any trouble registering send an email to community@lls.org .