Race For Hope 2011

Did you know that Brain Cancer is the number one disease killer of children?
Can you imagine a doctor looking into your hopeful eyes and saying your baby’s life expectancy is, “A few months, maybe a year,” and that, “one day she’ll just not wake up.”

That was the odds when my Aunt Eileen was diagnosed with Brain Cancer in March of 2008, and indeed she passed away the following November. I understand that children’s bodies may fight longer but would 1-5 years be any less of a punch to the gut? Does the thought of never seeing them graduate, get married, and start a family not still make you physically ache inside?


I pray that if this brutal killer has never come into your life, that it never does but if it ever should, wouldn’t you want the world to fight with you? That is why the Race for Hope is so important.


The Race for Hope benefits Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure (http://abc2.org/our-approach) which is trying to find a cure and that their research has led to innovations in treatment.
Did you know that less than 5% of people diagnosed with Brain Tumors survive 10 years? ABC squared is trying to change this and with donations they will.


The Race for Hope – DC has raised over $11 million in its twelve year existence. In the last ten years more knowledge about brain tumors has been gained than in the past hundred years, and I do not think this is a coincidence. In 2009, nearly 10,000 people came out in the rain to help the Race break the $2 million mark for the first time and last year even more people, me included, watched as they rose even more.


WHAT CAN YOU DO TO HELP?
This year I am running and I would like your support.
If you go to http://www.braintumorcommunity.org/site/TR/Events/RFH-DC?px=1829662&pg=personal&fr_id=1651 you can see my whole story of why I have chosen to do this as well as donate.


I understand this is a recession, I know you may not have a lot to give but even a little makes a difference, if 10 people can only spare 10 dollars that's 100 more dollars than they’d have than if you sit around thinking that you don't have enough to make a difference.