About Me

My Goal: Run the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2019 with the Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge. Raise $17,000 (or more!) where 100% of funds raised benefit the Claudia Adams Barr Program in Innovative Basic Cancer Research. I run in honor of my friend Chris Davie who is battling brain cancer. I also run in honor for my friend RJ and his continued cancer-free life, in memory of Heather Thomson, and for other family and friends who are or have battled cancer. Together we can help Dana-Farber Cancer Institute reach the ultimate finish line: a world without cancer

Barr Program Impact Statements

Barr Program Impact Statements

Immunotherapies: New Ways to Activate the Immune System—An important area of cancer research asks why the human body's defense systems do not always attack and destroy tumors as they form. Funded by the Claudia Adams Barr Program, Glenn Dranoff, MD, discovered complex regulatory pathways in the human immune system that cancers exploit in order to escape destruction. Reversal of these effects can lead to the development of vaccines against cancer, like Provenge for prostate cancer. This research has also enabled the development of immune-activating drugs such as ipilimumab, which showed striking effects in melanoma in a trial led by Dana-Farber scientists and is now approved by the Food and Drug Administration for treatment.

Sunday, March 16, 2014

A Great Fundraising Week! THANK YOU!

What a great week for DFMC and reaching our $10,000 goal!  13 generous donors donated over $800 to bring our total to $6,862!! On top of that, Amy and I threw our St. Patty's Day brunch and had a great turnout.  We have some great friends who ate all the food we prepared, nearly drank us out of the beer, whiskey, Bailey's, coffee and mimosas, and helped raise over $750 for our DFMC efforts!  Wow, what an incredibly busy and crazy day, but so worth it to benefit DFMC and innovative cancer research!

After last weekend's run, I was ready for a 2nd consecutive good run this weekend. That was not to be.  Waking up on Sat AM for the group run, I was already not looking forward to it.  Luckily it was a drop down week and we were only planning for 16 miles.  By mile 5 I was already starting to feel tired and started lagging behing our group by mile 7.  Returning to the start and completing the 16 miles was just exhausting and not fun.  I felt as I had after running the marathon in 2012 in 88F temps, but I had finished it.
I didn't have long to recover as it was the Patient Partner Poster Party.  After grabbing some food and a coffee I started to feel a bit more energized, but still not like myself.  Luckily, seeing RJ and helping to put his poster together made up for a blah morning run.  It was great to catch up and seeing the other patients and runners.  Hoping that the positive aspects of the patient partner party and the St. Patty's brunch translate to a solid week of training and fundraising.

Lots of patients (& partners) working on their poster

Working together on RJs poster
 
Nearly finished product
 
Thanks to Lakota Bakery for the delicious sugar cookies and frosting!  My decorating job isn't 1/2 bad
 
 
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