Team Just Doing It celebrated their tenth year at the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation CIBC Run for the Cure this Sunday!
Sometimes hope is hard to find.
Devestated by a totally unexpected diagnosis of breast cancer at first you flail and flounder.Fear,depression,anger and hopelessness come rushing in.
But sometimes you are lucky and hope finds you. That’s what happened 10 years ago when a group of breast cancer survivors happened upon the Running Room’s first ever Survivors’ Running Clinic.
The Clinic gave us exactly what we needed-a running plan,confidence,a great leader and a raucous good time …and hope for our futures.
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The 2nd Annual Bras Across the Bridge was a smashing success!
C100′s Team Moya had another very successful fundraising event this year, the 2nd Annual Bras Across the Bridge for the 2010 Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation CIBC Run for the Cure and we couldn’t have done it without such good C100 listeners. For about 3 weeks at the beginning of September we once again hit the airwaves asking C100 listeners to get together with family, friends and co-workers to collect their old bras that were otherwise headed to the garbage and donate them to our Bras Across the Bridge fundraiser. It is a really great fundraising idea as people were being asked to donate old bras and not money, that’s where our partners came in Samuel and Co and Joseph Ribkoff donated $1 for every old bra we collected, we managed to collect 8500 bras and Samuel and Co topped up their donation to $10,000.
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Rebecca is running for her sister Rachel whose perseverance and hope is utterly inspiring.
I am a loved one watching a loved one go through the battle of breast cancer.
My sister Rachel has truly had the worst year. In January of this year she was diagnosed with cervical cancer after complaining about lower back pain. She underwent a radical hysterectomy and was slowly recovering and ready to continue her life again when she found a lump in her breast. After many tests it was confirmed that Rachel was diagnosed with Stage II Invasive Ductal Carcinoma. After a partial mastectomy and removal of lymph nodes, Rachel was set on the course of 6 months of chemotherapy (FEC-T) with a month of radiation to follow.
Rachel has shed many, many tears in the past few months. She is the mother of two gorgeous boys, 8 and 10 years of age and is the wife of a wonderful husband. For Rachel, this hasn’t been about her at all. In Rachel’s view, the only worry that has been placed on her shoulders is the worry of her boys. So concerned about how her boys would deal with this, she would hide in her bedroom at night and let her emotions out at that time so that they would not see her upset. She puts on the biggest, bravest smile when they were around and has ensured that their schooling and extra-curricular activities have remained the same. Life has not changed for them and this is what she wanted.
Rachel has just completed her 3rd chemo going into her 4th in a couple of weeks. She knows that this is going to get worse before it gets better but she fights the fight with a grace and dignity that is commendable.
This Sunday I, as well as approximately 40 others of her friends and family are running for the cure. We are running for Rachel, my sister, so that she can live a healthy and full life, we are running for our daughters, mothers, nieces, aunts, grandmothers and for ourselves!
My sister is a fountain of strength and me, being her little sister, couldn’t be prouder!
Rebecca
It’s not too late to make a difference, you can still donate to the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation CIBC Run for the Cure. Let’s create a future without breast cancer.
Brandon and Michael are running in memory of their Mom and Aunt Vera on Sunday at the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation CIBC Run for the Cure.
Michael and his Mom, Mara.
My name is Brandon, my brother Michael and I along with my Step-Mom and Step-Sister Elena are walking for my Mom Mara and our Aunt Vera who died of breast cancer in the year 2007. I was 9 years old and my brother was 7 years old when she died.
Brandon and his Mom
I wish she was still here with us. She was the best Mom in the world and we will love her forever. We wish we could just fall asleep in her arms and stay there forever. I know we have to be strong because our Dad loves us and needs us.
My Aunt Vera was the funniest Aunt. My brother and I used to get so excited when we would go for supper at her home. My Aunt was the best cook in the world. She always decorated the table special just for us. We miss her too.
My Step-Mom Filomena always helped this cause and encouraged us to do the walk with her and daughter and her team Angels of Hope. We are very proud and excited to this for my Mom and Aunt who are now in Heaven looking down at us. I know that it will make them very proud.
Brandon and Michael
Thank you,
Brandon & Michael
Join Brandon and Michael this Sunday at the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation CIBC Run for the Cure.
Let’s create a future without breast cancer.
Christine is running for her three little girls and their future at the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation CIBC Run for the Cure this Sunday.
I am participating in Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation CIBC Run For The Cure for my three girls…Madelan, Sophie and Leah.
Madelan was 6, Sophie was 4 and Leah had just turned one when I was diagnosed with breast cancer.
And now? Madelan is 11 and was just given the lead role in her play, Sophie is 9 and was just asked to try out for competitive soccer and Leah is 6 in two days and just lost her first tooth.
I remember back to the day I was diagnosed with breast cancer. We were having a party that evening and then heading to the Santa Parade. Leah had a bad cold and so she and I had to stay home. Our friends said “Don’t worry, you can all go together next year.” They didn’t know the terrible news I had just received and I had to hold back my tears, not knowing if there would be a next year. Not knowing if I could ever take my three girls to all their firsts.
Thanks to some of the research that has been done thus far, I have been able to watch my girls grow and develop into wonderful people and share in their firsts, their special moments.
Thank you so much for your support.
- Christine
Join Christine this Sunday at the Run. Together we can create a future without breast cancer.
