22/04/2026
🎗 Today is World AML Awareness Day — and for Love Bus, this day is deeply personal.
Acute myeloid leukemia — AML — is one of the most aggressive and fatal forms of blood and bone marrow cancer. It's a diagnosis that changes everything, instantly.
Love Bus Co-Founder, Lucy Grogan, was 8 years old when she was diagnosed with AML. Over the years that followed — through treatment, remission, relapse, and back again — she experienced firsthand what it meant to cope with cancer as a child. She discovered the power of integrative therapies to ease the fear, the pain, and the uncertainty. And slowly, through living it herself, a vision began to take shape: what if every child with cancer could access these therapies too?
That vision became Lucy's Love Bus, now Love Bus 💛🦋🎗.
One week before her death, Lucy walked into the hospital playroom and made one final art project — a Japanese paper mobile. She asked her mom to write words on it that would come to define everything Love Bus is and does:
✨ "Let love in. Live life with love." ✨
Those words became our north star. Lucy's courage, her compassion, and her vision launched a movement that has now touched thousands of children and families across New England over the past 20 years.
On World AML Awareness Day, we honor Lucy and every child and family navigating this diagnosis. We also honor every researcher, clinician, and advocate working to change outcomes for children with AML.
To learn more about Lucy and the vision that started it all, read Lucy’s Story on our blog: https://bit.ly/MeetLucyLoveBus 💛
