July 2017
Dear sponsors and friends,
Thank you all for your support to the Pan Mass Challenge - PMC.
On Aug 5 and 6, 2017, I will be riding in my 24nd PMC. As you all know the PMC is a special event to the thousands of patients at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute who have benefited from the over half a billion dollars that the PMC has donated to them. These donations have lead to new treatments and more research into fighting cancer.
Thank you all for the continued support for the PMC and allowing me to participate in it.
PLEASE REMEMBER - 100% OF EVERY DOLLAR RAISED BY RIDERS GOES TO DANA FARBER CANCER INSTATUTE ($45M in 2015 and $500M to date). No other charity does that.
We still need to find a cure for cancer once and for all.
If you are able to contribute again this year to this great cause please make a secure online donation at:
http://pmc.org/egifts/PM0024
If you would rather send a check, please make it out to the Pan Mass Challenge or PMC and mail it to my attention at:
2 Foliage Drive
Walpole, MA 02081
Thank you for your continued and generous support.
Paul Millette
As always, information on the PMC can be found at www.PMC.org
Aug 5, 2016
To all my family and friends,
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
About 50 weeks ago I was in the back of an ambulance with a paramedic administering a combination of pain and healing medicines to me as we rushed into a Boston hospital.
50 weeks ago I saw a line in the floor in the hallway of Bingham and Womans hospital. That line was 20 feet away. I didn't think I could walk that far. I forced myself to walk that 20 feet. It was excruciating but I did it.
38 weeks ago I was lying in a hospital bed. The nurses needed to move me up in the bed but I was too weak and too sore to do it myself. I needed an electric lift to hoist me back up the two feet towards the head of the bed. Imagine that, a hoist to to lift me two feet in a bed.
Today:
Today I rode 110 miles. I am riding in my 23rd PMC. 200 miles in 2 days vs 2 feet in a bed and walking 20 feet in a hospital hallway. Six months ago I really questioned if I would be able to ever ride in this event again.
So thank you all for your supporting me in my recovery and for letting me participate in this event which I love so much and has become such a normal part of my life.
Oh yeah, also, together you and I are raising a ton of cash to find a cure for cancer.
Dear sponsors and friends,
Thank you all for your support to the Pan Mass Challenge - PMC.
On Aug 6 and 7, 2016, I will be riding in my 23nd PMC.
This year’s ride will be very special to me for a very personal reason.
Two weeks after last year’s PMC, I was rushed in an ambulance to Brigham and Woman’s hospital with life threatening health problems from a perforated colon. I was operated on in a long and painful procedure and came out of surgery a very weak man. I stayed in the hospital for six grueling days. At one point I remember trying to walk in the hallway and seeing a line in the floor only 20 feet away. I really did not think I could walk the 20 feet and barely did. I thought about how ironic it was that I was struggling so hard to walk 20 feet when only two weeks before I had ridden my bicycle 200 miles in two days with relative ease.
After coming home and needing weeks of daily nursing care, I started to regain my strength. I needed to get strong because in November I was scheduled for a more involved, complex, longer and more grueling surgery for final reconstructing of my insides. After the second surgery, I again spent close to a week in the hospital. I came out of that surgery fixed, but in worse shape than the first one. I am happy to report that I am just about at 100% now. I think the day I finish the PMC I will know I’m back to full physical strength.
For many reasons I look at the PMC as the ultimate symbol of my health being back. It will mark about a year since my issues began, it will be the biggest physical challenge I have faced since my health problems began and the 200 miles will be a triumph over that 20 foot walk.
Many people have asked me not to ride this year’s PMC because of my health issues of last year. I too questioned it many times. But I need to ride in this event. I need to ride because of the positive impact it has had on so many cancer patients lives, because I have so many sponsors who count on me to ride and of what it means to me to be able to ride in this event every year, especially this year.
Thank you all for the continued support for the PMC and allowing me to participate in it.
PLEASE REMEMBER - 100% OF EVERY DOLLAR RAISED BY RIDERS GOES TO DANA FARBER CANCER INSTATUTE ($45M in 2015 and $500M to date). No other charity does that.
We still need to find a cure for cancer once and for all.
If you are able to contribute again this year to this great cause please make a secure online donation at:
http://pmc.org/egifts/PM0024
If you would rather send a check, please make it out to the Pan Mass Challenge or PMC and mail it to my attention at:
2 Foliage Drive
Walpole, MA 02081
Thank you for your continued and generous support.
Paul Millette
July 2017
Dear sponsors and friends,
Thank you all for your support to the Pan Mass Challenge - PMC.
On Aug 5 and 6, 2017, I will be riding in my 24nd PMC. As you all know the PMC is a special event to the thousands of patients at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute who have benefited from the over half a billion dollars that the PMC has donated to them. These donations have lead to new treatments and more research into fighting cancer.
Thank you all for the continued support for the PMC and allowing me to participate in it.
PLEASE REMEMBER - 100% OF EVERY DOLLAR RAISED BY RIDERS GOES TO DANA FARBER CANCER INSTATUTE ($45M in 2015 and $500M to date). No other charity does that.
We still need to find a cure for cancer once and for all.
If you are able to contribute again this year to this great cause please make a secure online donation at:
http://pmc.org/egifts/PM0024
If you would rather send a check, please make it out to the Pan Mass Challenge or PMC and mail it to my attention at:
2 Foliage Drive
Walpole, MA 02081
Thank you for your continued and generous support.
Paul Millette
As always, information on the PMC can be found at www.PMC.org
Aug 5, 2016
To all my family and friends,
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
About 50 weeks ago I was in the back of an ambulance with a paramedic administering a combination of pain and healing medicines to me as we rushed into a Boston hospital.
50 weeks ago I saw a line in the floor in the hallway of Bingham and Womans hospital. That line was 20 feet away. I didn't think I could walk that far. I forced myself to walk that 20 feet. It was excruciating but I did it.
38 weeks ago I was lying in a hospital bed. The nurses needed to move me up in the bed but I was too weak and too sore to do it myself. I needed an electric lift to hoist me back up the two feet towards the head of the bed. Imagine that, a hoist to to lift me two feet in a bed.
Today:
Today I rode 110 miles. I am riding in my 23rd PMC. 200 miles in 2 days vs 2 feet in a bed and walking 20 feet in a hospital hallway. Six months ago I really questioned if I would be able to ever ride in this event again.
So thank you all for your supporting me in my recovery and for letting me participate in this event which I love so much and has become such a normal part of my life.
Oh yeah, also, together you and I are raising a ton of cash to find a cure for cancer.
Dear sponsors and friends,
Thank you all for your support to the Pan Mass Challenge - PMC.
On Aug 6 and 7, 2016, I will be riding in my 23nd PMC.
This year’s ride will be very special to me for a very personal reason.
Two weeks after last year’s PMC, I was rushed in an ambulance to Brigham and Woman’s hospital with life threatening health problems from a perforated colon. I was operated on in a long and painful procedure and came out of surgery a very weak man. I stayed in the hospital for six grueling days. At one point I remember trying to walk in the hallway and seeing a line in the floor only 20 feet away. I really did not think I could walk the 20 feet and barely did. I thought about how ironic it was that I was struggling so hard to walk 20 feet when only two weeks before I had ridden my bicycle 200 miles in two days with relative ease.
After coming home and needing weeks of daily nursing care, I started to regain my strength. I needed to get strong because in November I was scheduled for a more involved, complex, longer and more grueling surgery for final reconstructing of my insides. After the second surgery, I again spent close to a week in the hospital. I came out of that surgery fixed, but in worse shape than the first one. I am happy to report that I am just about at 100% now. I think the day I finish the PMC I will know I’m back to full physical strength.
For many reasons I look at the PMC as the ultimate symbol of my health being back. It will mark about a year since my issues began, it will be the biggest physical challenge I have faced since my health problems began and the 200 miles will be a triumph over that 20 foot walk.
Many people have asked me not to ride this year’s PMC because of my health issues of last year. I too questioned it many times. But I need to ride in this event. I need to ride because of the positive impact it has had on so many cancer patients lives, because I have so many sponsors who count on me to ride and of what it means to me to be able to ride in this event every year, especially this year.
Thank you all for the continued support for the PMC and allowing me to participate in it.
PLEASE REMEMBER - 100% OF EVERY DOLLAR RAISED BY RIDERS GOES TO DANA FARBER CANCER INSTATUTE ($45M in 2015 and $500M to date). No other charity does that.
We still need to find a cure for cancer once and for all.
If you are able to contribute again this year to this great cause please make a secure online donation at:
http://pmc.org/egifts/PM0024
If you would rather send a check, please make it out to the Pan Mass Challenge or PMC and mail it to my attention at:
2 Foliage Drive
Walpole, MA 02081
Thank you for your continued and generous support.
Paul Millette
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