Here’s the latest and greatest on recent donors, training and random thoughts from me…
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Money Monday #2
It’s time for Money Monday again and 5 more reasons why you should donate to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Jimmy fund. So without further adew… 1. William Sellers, MD, and his colleagues at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute identified genetic abnormalities in proteins that control cell growth in cancers. These discoveries led to the…
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First Ankle Update of 2011
It’s 2011 and the first week of PT in 2011 was a good one. After spending enough time on an exercise bike to have completed the Tour-de-France…twice. I was finally cleared this week to get on the elliptical…Great news! So far I have done two 30 minute workouts on the elliptical and aside from just…
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Reasons to donate to Dana-Farber and the Jimmy Fund
Along the same lines as Thank you Thursday I’ve got another theme-day for you. Every Monday from now until the marathon I will give you five reasons why you should donate to Dana-Farber and the Jimmy Fund in support of my marathon run. Some will be pathetic attempts at being funny, others will actually be…
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THANK YOU THURSDAY #1
A big thanks this week to the people that have gotten the ball rolling for me here. Liz and Rich Sturges who kicked the whole thing off for me by being my first donation, hopefully, on the road to many! Rich is also running the Boston Marathon this year with the American Liver Foundation. I’d…
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Thank you Thursday!
I was trying to think of a good way to say THANK YOU through this blog to those that donate and help me reach my $6,000 goal to support Dana-Farber. Here’s what I have come up with… Every Thursday will be “Thank you Thursday” where I’ll give a shout out to those of you who…
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Happy Holidays!
Hope that everyone’s holidays are going well and that you’ve all enjoyed or survived this holiday season. My Christmas was great, very relaxing—well I mean it was relaxing after I started my shopping on December 23rd. Really I’m going to be better this year, I will, it won’t be like the past 10 years that…
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The man in my life…Chris Jensen, PT
This week has been very exciting! I started physical therapy and after just two sessions I am feeling incredibly better! As you know already from It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… and Want some dip with that chip? I have a small, okay probably somewhat larger than small, anxiety…
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You’re so vain I bet you think this post is about you
I wouldn’t typically say that I am a really vain person per se but last week I surprised even myself. After thinking about and staring at my ankle all week and then having other people look at my ankle all last week, I decided that it was necessary for me to get a pedicure ASAP!…
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Want some dip with that chip?
So after having a minor breakdown upon hearing that I had chipped my ankle, partially because I thought that I wouldn’t be able to run the marathon, partially because I am a bit of a drama queen (I know, I know none of you can believe this), and partially because I am perhaps the biggest…
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…
One of the reasons that I started this blog is because the first 4 days of this marathon journey have already been so eventful that there’s no way that I couldn’t share this with all of you. On Thursday, December 2nd I got the email that I had been waiting for since early October…I was…
Only 26 miles to go! 