Making A Difference At The Powder Puff
So you probably know by now about Team Courage, what we think of as our “Promotional Department”. The team is our avenue to be out in the public and reaching people, hopefully to make a difference with what women are going through when facing breast cancer as well as raising awareness for our fund raising efforts through Courage Is My Strength.
The team’s first race is on October 9th in Barstow, CA. It’s the Powder Puff race, all women drivers, and the proceeds go to the Cedars Sinai hospital for breast cancer research. It’s a very exciting race, but even more exciting for me because October will be one year since I put together the idea of Team Courage, and to be able to put together a truck and a team within a year and make it to our first race is amazing. I’ve had lots of great help from wonderful people, without a doubt, and it’s so exciting to see this dream come true so quickly.
I have added a DONATE page to the top of this website. Right now we are on a fund drive for the Powder Puff. Our goal is to raise $2500, which will allow us to donate to Cedars Sinai, and even more exciting, pay for 10 mammograms for women that don’t qualify for other funding such as Komen and other breast cancer organizations. There are still women getting turned away from the testing they need, and those are the women we’re trying so hard to help.
Every donation, even $5, helps so much. I know that not everyone can donate, and I understand how hard times are for everyone. If there is anything at all that you can do to help us help others it would be appreciated from the bottom of my heart. We don’t want to just show up at the Powder Puff, we want to be able to make a big difference to other women from our very first event.
Thank you so much for your thoughts and support as we get closer to this monumental day.
Photos from Race For A Cure
The Race For A Cure was great fun. I’m not a runner, so I walked the 5K and was happy when I crossed the finish line in under an hour. Heard lots of great stories, and the most frequent question I heard asked was “What is a previvor?”. Some
women didn’t seem to like the idea of a woman chosing to have mastectomies before getting cancer, but I am still happy with my choice. I saw so many “In Memory Of” signs, I don’t want my name to ever be on one. It may not be understood, but I am proud to be a Previvor.
Race For The Cure This Saturday
Hey everyone!
This Saturday I will be taking place in the Race for the Cure in Aspen. I want to make sure all of my Courage Friends are with me. I have a lot of followers to this blog that don’t post, but please this time post your name and if you are a survivor or previvor. I will have a “In Celebration Of” sign for everyone’s name. I’m also asking the same thing on all of my Facebook pages, so you can also post there. I want to make sure you are all celebrated and along with me in spirit! I’m hoping to have an amazing amount of names so that our cause gets noticed and we can really make a difference to women that can’t afford the testing they need.
Will you be there with me??
Jealousy and Smelly People
Happily on my way to LA for the NORRA party celebrating the Mexican 1000 event. It’s been one of those trips. Thanks to wonderful Aunt Joy I am flying stand-by, and of course when you fly stand-by you have to make some sacrifices. For my best chance at a seat I had to start trying to leave Denver at 6am this morning. Since we live 3+ hours from the airport I decided to get to the airport last night. I arrived at the Denver airport around 10pm last night, watched Dexter for awhile and then slept on the floor at my gate for about an hour. I woke up at 4am and have been kind of roaming around ever since.
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