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reaches goal: She'll run in trials today  by Jenni Carlson
Published: April 20, 2008 Less than six months before the
biggest race of her life, Emily LeVan could no more run than
fly.  She was constantly at the hospital, remedies and
treatments taking precedence over running and training. Even
when the Oklahoma native wasn't at the hospital, she often had
neither the energy nor the desire to run.  The health problems
weren't hers.  They were her daughter's.  LeVan's little girl
was diagnosed last fall with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. It's
a disease that's every bit as awful as it sounds. If untreated,
it can be fatal in only a few weeks.  "You just feel like your
entire world has been pulled out from underneath you,” LeVan
said of the diagnosis.  Maddie, after all, is 4 years old.  How
was LeVan supposed to keep training for the U.S. Olympic
marathon trials?  She couldn't leave her daughter while doing
10- or 15-mile runs and logging hundreds of mile