It appears anywhere Michelle Chelius has lived, she's laid her roots.

Michelle, with daughter Sinead and son Callum.

Now as she fights a rare Stage 4 level cancer, many communities are uniting to help battle together.
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Chelius grew up in Harleysville and attended Souderton High School. A teacher, along with her husband and North Wales native Dave Hannum, moved to Burlington County before most recently settling in Schuylkill County.

"She's one of those people it only takes five minutes to fall in love with," Deb Lynch said.

While living in Burlington County, Dave taught at the same school as Rob Lynch. Lynch and his wife Deb ran a side tie-dye business, from which Dave bought Michelle a dress.

Then at a party, Michelle approached Dave to thank him for the beautiful dress he made her and ever since the two couples have been close friends.

"We've been best friends for 10 years," Deb said. "A two hour drive doesn't mean anything."

For this reason, Deb organized an online fundraiser for her friend Michelle who is battling Stage 4 Thymic cancer, a cancer that rests behind the breast bone.

"She's lived her expiration date, I like to joke," Deb said. Michelle was originally diagnosed in January 2012 and continues to fight her cancer.

"I didn't have kids to die before they moved out of my house," Michelle often tells Deb. Michelle and Dave have a 9-year-old daughter and piano player named Sinead and an 11-year-old son and all-sports player named Callum.

Good news came today from an anonymous donor who promised to match any donation made to Michelle's Give Forward page by Monday. The current donations will go towards funding the $8,000 monthly treatment that Michelle now has to receive because of an allergic reaction to previous Chemotherapy.

"She is a part of a lovely family and deserves the opportunity to mother her children," Deb said.

Do you remember this beautiful North Penn graduate Ayisha Hussain, who was diagnosed with Osteosarcoma, a bone cancer that originated as a tumor in her spine, in 2010?

The girl who, though battling cancer, fundraised for Children's Hospital of Phialdelphia and the Ronald McDonald House?

Unfortunately, Hussain lost her battle to cancer yesterday and while her family celebrates her life at the North Penn Mosque today, we are reminded that we can show our love and faith in this girl's courageous fight by honoring her memory.

"Cancer took Ayisha's life this morning, but she kept fighting and kept smiling the whole way through," friend Alison Wallach wrote in an e-mail to us. "Being featured on the Lansdale Love blog meant so much to her to reach as many people as possible with her message of hope and awareness."

Hussain and her good friends, organized by Melissa Ronnan,  continue to work to raise money for the Ronald McDonald Family Room at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Purchase a T-shirt or make a donation in Ayisha's name to the cause that will help better facilitate the families who are spending time in the hospital at the sides of their sick children.

"I love to spend a lot of time at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia having sleepovers with my Ayisha. The first time I ever slept over we were wondering the halls of the oncology floor late at night," Ronnan wrote on the fundraising page.

"Every time I went there I saw what life was like living in the hospital. I was only there over night, these families are there for months. This made me want to step up and find a way to get donations to fill the Ronald McDonald Family Room's cabinets. This wish list provides donations from individually wrapped snacks to kitchen supplies. There is definitely a way we can make this happen, but with your help," Ronnan wrote.

This project is something Ayisha started with her friends - a simple cause of something she saw could benefit families like hers.

Ayisha this past May.