For the last six years, I have participated in the Relay For Life, for the American Cancer Society or ACS. I have a been a captain for that past 3 years and this year I am a committee member of the event. The Relay for Life is a a 24 hours relay walk around a track with your team. For 24 hours at least 1 person on each team is walking around the track. The majority of the teams sleep in tents around and within the track. The tents will also have games, raffles, drawings, and many other fun things you can do and see while walking around the track. It is a great place for support for survivors and for awareness to raise money. I especially like to work with this organization because it provides financial services for all types of cancer not just breast cancer, like many other cancer organizations.
Relay For Life is my opportunity to celebrate loved ones who have won their battle against cancer, remember those no longer with us, and fight back against this disease that robs so many of so much.
More than just walking the track, I'm fundraising! Because of the donations I collect, more people in more communities:
Have the information and tools they need to help reduce their risk of getting cancer or find the disease early, when it's easiest to treat
Have a place to turn for help 24/7
Benefit from the progress being made toward finding cancer's causes and cures
Get access to lifesaving screenings and treatment
Please join me in fighting cancer and consider supporting my fundraising efforts by making a donation. Dollars raised bring us one step closer to a world with less cancer and more birthdays, a world where not another life is lost to the disease.
It seems nowadays we all know someone or are related to someone that has been affected by cancer in an extremely harmful way. Many times these people's entire lives are changed because of this disease. My best friend in elemantary school's father was diagnosed with type 4 bone cancer in his jaw, he was given 6 weeks to live. Thanks to programs like this my friend and her siblings still have a father more than 3 years later.
Last month my aunt was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer in a tumor that has now spread to breast cancer as well. My mother has given up all her free time to be a great caregiver for my aunt. My aunt is getting the tumor removed this month and it is a extremely large and frightening surgery. This has put a toll on our entire family, yet this as also strengthened our reserve to raise money for the Relay for Life. My aunt lived in New Hampshire without health insurance. She had no way of getting help for her cancer and no way of receiving treatment. Thanks to the Relay for Life, she was moved 10 minutes away from my house in a Hope Lodge house for people and caregivers with cancer. They care for her and bring her to her appointments. They relieved a lot of stress of this off of my mother's shoulders. They can afford to have houses like this because of money raised directly from the Relay For Life.
So I ask all of you, if you are feeling kind, charitable, or just joyous to be healthy, then please donate to the Realy for Life organization. It is a wonderful way of contributing to society. If you can not afford to donate, as many of us can not, then please show support in other ways around your community.
If you would like to donate to my paticular relay under my team, you may click the link below. From the link simply fill out your name and information and a message if you desire. Its easy, safe, and simple and I encourage all of you to help out.
Thank you for reading and donating!