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.

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Injury Update

As I said in the last post, I finished the marathon and got a nice wheelchair ride to the DFMC hotel.  While I was hoping that the injury was tendonitis or a bad muscle strain, I was not so lucky.  After 2 weeks of using crutches, I was finally able to see an orthopedic.  After hearing my story, he immediately said 'stress fracture' and sent me for a MRI.  I had the MRI on a Saturday and unfortunately the stress fracture was confirmed.  It's in the femoral neck and though it sounds bad, it could have been much much worse (full fracture, disruption of blood supply and hip replacement!).

So what's on tap for me now...I've been on crutches since April 20th and get to keep practicing on them until June 1, my next appointment.  No weight-bearing on the right leg until June and only if I'm pain free at that point.  Swimming, nope. Biking, nope. Stretching or yoga, nope and nope.  No activity until at least June 1 and I'm pain free.  There's been plenty of improvement and I'm not feeling any pain right now but I am also heeding the doc's advice and not putting weight on it or testing it.  Hoping that June 1 is the last day of crutches and until then, I'll continue to, well, do nothing.
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