Showing posts with label Raleigh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Raleigh. Show all posts

Monday, May 11, 2015

2 1/2 WEEKS TO RELAY FOR LIFE

Just 2 1/2 weeks from now is my Relay For Life event.  Eeeeeek!  I am SO behind!!!!!!   HELP!!!  But I have faith, and friends and it can happen. 

As I’ve said in the past, my reasons for participating are well documented and I don’t think anyone wants to hear the rundown again.  The short version, cancer.  Regardless of what kind, can be devastating to individuals and families.  Ask someone if they ever had a family member or close friend who had been treated for cancer.  100% of them would say yes.  For me, it was both my partner and my mother.  Both died of cancer.   I’m just one of millions.

Relay for Life funds research.  Research produces new effective treatments.  Given time for more research, the advancements in treatment can happen.  But that time costs money.  Money that is raised through Relay for Life.   Study it, treat it, beat it.  Please help me help others that are hoping, praying and waiting for viable new treatment options.

From 6:30 pm on Friday May 29th until 8 am on Saturday May 30th, I will be at Raleigh Relay for Life on the football field at Leesville Road High school, walking.  Help me by making a donation.   If that is not feasible, come out and walk a few laps.  The atmosphere is one of Hope.  It is both uplifting and sobering.  The link to donate online is below my name.  If you would prefer to write a check, use the same link to print a donation sheet and mail in with your check.  Please remember to make your check payable to The American Cancer Society. 100% of your donation is tax deductible.

“I walk all night because cancer never sleeps” 

Thank you.

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Joe's Memorial Service

It is so surreal for me to be writing this. Sleep isn't coming easy and I've been reading the posts on Joe's Facebook page as well as on the blog. I was looking at E numbers and on Joe's Facebook page since people learned of his death Sunday night, there have been over 450 posts in which he was tagged by friends and former students expressing their grief at his passing and thanking him for being as so many put it, "the best teacher they ever had". That was my Joe.

The memorial service for Joe will be this Saturday at 2pm at Pleasant Grove United Methodist Church, 4415 Pleasant Grove Church Road, Raleigh, NC 27613. Joe has had such an impact on so many lives and we wish to honor him in a simple service filled with music in the place we call our church home. We hope to be surrounded by family and friends as we celebrate Joe's lasting influence on our lives. Thank you for the huge outpouring of love on his Facebook page. I know that this wonderful man that I was blessed to spend the last 15 years with is seeing and listening to all the wonderful tributes and smiling. Thank you.

Vaccination date set

 This morning at 8 a.m. we began the process of trying to get an appointment date.  I had 3 appointments at the Duke Cancer Center so I was ...