PMC 2024
So much has happened in the last couple of years. So many things had to be reimagined. One thing that did not change is cancer. Cancer has affected so many people. Just in our own circle. I ride in memory of my mother Kathi. This year will be 34 years since she passed away from lung cancer. Treatments and care have come such a long way, thanks to all the dedicated researchers, doctors, nurses, caregivers who have put their life's work into finding cures and treatments to help people live the best life they can for as long as they can. This is thanks to all the money that is donated by all of you to fund the research. As many of you know, our dad was diagnosed with esophageal cancer this spring and is now fighting the fight with chemo and radiation. I ride for him. ♥!Sadly, dad passed from this in Oct. 2022. This one is for him. I ride for a friend who is in a big fight right now with a rare cancer called leiomyosarcoma. The amount of interventions she has had in the last year is staggering. But she fights, with a positive attitude and a great team at Dana Farber and Brigham and woman's. She is inspiring in how she is handling her scans and treatments, I just wish she didn't have to go through this at all. I ride for a very dear friend and nursing mentor who's significant other has been battling lymphoma and CLL for some years now .I also ride for my childhood friend Mary who never even got the chance to fight her pancreatic cancer. She was taken way too quickly. I truly wish no one would have to deal with cancer, It sucks! But this is why we ride, to hopefully bring new treatments to fruition, so that people can be cured. Which did happen this year, I ride for my friend who beat breast cancer last year, enduring her treatments during the height of covid. She did amazing and is cancer free! I ride for Diane who is an inspiration to us all, living proof that newer treatments work! All thanks to the amazing people out there donating their hard earned money to stamp out cancer. Please consider donating to my PMC virtual ride, all of the money raised goes directly to Dana Farber Cancer institute in Boston. Love to you all!

Thanks in advance!