ONE BILLION dollars is no joke. This is the year that the PMC will have raised one billion dollars for Dana Farber over the past 45 years.

I've always said that I'll keep riding PMC to contribute to the buckets of money that scientists and clinicians need to find more cures for more cancers .... until they tell us to stop. One billion dollars is a pretty epic sign post on that journey.

I'm getting a later than usual start to all things PMC related. It's late April and I haven't been on a bike yet and this is the first that my community of generous supporters is hearing from me.

In late January I was walking across a parking lot on the way to work and slipped on invisible black ice and landed on my outstretched right hand …. Breaking both my radius and ulna. I had surgery a week later and now have another piece of shiny metal implanted in my body to hold bones together. On my way to bionic woman status!

It’s been almost three months now and I’ve made tons of progress. I can actually hold a pen now and can lift things and even chop vegetables. What I can’t yet do is bend my wrist forward or backward more than about 40 degrees. Apparently the scar tissue is just really stubborn in some people!

I rode my trainer the other day and that went ok, so I’m hoping to try riding around the block sometime soon. But I have no idea how that’s going to go.

So …. I know that I will participate in PMC this summer, but I’m not sure what that will look like exactly. Maybe I’ll be able to ride both days, or part of it, or maybe I’ll ride the tandem bike again with my awesome teammate Jaime. Or maybe I’ll do something else.

I have leared over the PMC years that it’s not about me and what I do that weekend. It’s about what all of us do together the other 363 days of the year!

So for the next 100 days before PMC 2024, I’ll be focused on fundraising, PT for my wrist, training in whatever way I can, and gazing lovingly at my new cat Poppy!

Thank you all for being such generous supporters in the past. I’m proud of what we’ve accomplished together over the years.

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