Please please help contribute to finding a cure!

Since 2018, when I rode my first PMC, with your help, I've raised over $81,000 for Dana Farber Cancer Center! 100% of all donations go directly to Dana Farber for research and care – research and care that makes a world of difference for people like me and for my dear friend Melissa.

For those who do not know me well, in July 2016 I received the news no one wants to hear - invasive ductal carcinoma. The long-term prognosis seemed good because the cancer appeared to be contained- so just major surgery and an eight week leave from my brand-new job! Following a ten-hour surgery in August 2016, two weeks later we learned that those sneaky cancer cells had ventured to my lymph nodes - the cancer was not contained, it had begun to spread. My eight weeks leave of absence turned into four months of chemotherapy, twenty-eight rounds of radiation, and ten years of post-active treatment injections, medications, and care. In November 2019 I finished three years of infusions and now I’m down to monthly injections and daily medication…

This year I ride for my friends Melissa Eleey, Rachel DiBella, Leslie Greco, Laura Bacon, Valerie Campbell our newest Forza-g rider!!), Jess Heefner, Cassie Villalta, Patty Flynn, Jo Hanabury, Kristin Bahny, April Ackerman, Barbara Gorczyca, Netty Neihoff, Kelly Cassier, and far too many others, including my friends from the Young Survivors Coalition (YSC), my fellow dancers at Runway for Recovery (R4R), and my fishing friends from Casting for Recovery. I also ride for my family members – my mom, who initially went through cancer treatment when she was 43 years old and again in 2017 and my aunt Patty Rademacher, who is in the fight of her life right now as she battles a challenging recurrence -- and for my family and friends quietly/privately navigating cancer diagnoses and treatment.

I ride each year in memory of some extraordinary friends and family including Hannah Earle, Kerensa Irvin, Susan Haley, John “Leddy” Ledwick, and Theo Falch, who left us far too soon. I also ride for my grandmother, who died from breast cancer when I was just a year old; Fred Perrone, the skiing extraordinaire who introduced our son to Cannon Mountain; Mike Hayes, my uncle and one of the coolest and most selfless people I have ever met; and my dear friend Paolo Wieser’s father, Heinz Paul, the fastest man on Stratton Mountain.

Please consider helping me contribute to finding a cure for cancer. The time is now. Let’s make this happen together.