random request
Some of you have gotten this via mass email, but I’m posting it here to reach the six people per month who accidentally end up on this blog thanks to the unpredictable quirks of search engines.A year and a half ago when I was training for the marathon to raise money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, my friend Dave put a post about it on his blog. Several of his friends and coworkers – people I had never met – read it and made donations.
One of Dave’s friends, Jen, not only made a donation, but also told her mom about my run. Jen’s mom Carol is a runner. She had run in the Anchorage marathon 25 years before. Hearing about my run, Carol wrote me a long email detailing every hill and turn of the course as she remembered it. It was an incredibly sweet and helpful thing to do, and all from the mom of a friend of a friend.
Two days ago I got an email from Jen that her mom has been diagnosed with leukemia and lymphoma. She is currently in good health, and has decided to run-walk the Vancouver half marathon in May for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. I can’t really imagine looking that diagnosis in the face and deciding to complete a marathon.
When I was training, all the donations made me feel like I was really reaching a whole network of people… not just doing a lot of crappy running. So if any of you feel like giving a small contribution – even five or ten dollars – you can find Carol’s site here. The money funds important work that could benefit any of us, and the act is a way of letting a total stranger know that she is supported – just the way she did for me.
posted by tortaluga @ 4:46 PM
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