Racing to Save Lives

Welcome to my Team In Training home page.

Nov. 30th Gil had his follow up appointment. Every looks pretty good, but he has an enlarged thyroid. His ultrasound was Thursday, Dec. 3rd and now we are waiting on the results from that. Many hopes and prayers going out hoping that it is only scar tissue from the radiation. We should know by Tuesday!

Nov. 16th went in for his CT scan. His follow up is Monday, Nov. 30th. We are very hopeful for a clean bill of health and the beginning of a 5th year of remission. I wonder if someday we will loose track of when his cancer was.

Nov. 22nd, I did the 1st Women's magazine Women's 1/2 marathon in St. Petersburg. Although not the event I am raising money for, it was an event to benefit the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and there were several Team in Training participants. It was a great event. A little warm for November, but a nice venue around the waterfront and Old Northeast, St. Petersburg. I did manage to do at 13.1 miles in 2 hours and 14 minutes. Now, to get ready for Disney.

We're still waiting for Gil to get his 'new' teeth. With the holidays fast approaching and money being tight, he's been holding off on going to the dentist. We will get there eventally. In the meantime, the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society has opened a grant to research post treatment quality of life. This is very exciting research - for us and, I'm sure, thousands of others!

On Sept. 11th, Gil had oral surgery to have 7 teeth removed. He has undergone hyperbaric treatments to prepare for the surgery because of the damage the radiation did to his mouth. It all started with his last wisdom tooth, but there turned out to be a lot more radiation damage than we knew. Keep us in your thoughts and prayers as we come up on his surgery.

Oct. 26th marks a somewhat sad anniversary for us. That was the day, in 2005, my husband Gil was diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma. We had no idea what kind of a challenge it would be, and although he lost his hair, he never lost his sense of humor. The real celebration is May 19th; the anniversary of his last day of treatment and the beginning of remission.

Now we have a different challenge:

I have joined the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Team in Training, the worlds largest endurance sports training program that helps raise funds for research of blood borne cancers. All of us on Team In

Training are raising funds to help stop leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin

lymphoma and myeloma from taking more lives.

I am I will be training for the Disney 1/2 marathon in January.

This will be my third event with TNT. I am excited and a little nervous, but I figure, if Gil can endure 4 months of Chemo, 2 months of radiation and come out of it as well as he did, I can endure 13 miles.

But it is not about me; it IS about those who are living with cancer; about people like Gil, TNT's honored teammates and all of us whose lives have been touched by cancer. It is about the research so there will be new, better treatments, maybe even a cure. It is about imagining a world without cancer.

We need your support to cross the ultimate finish line - a cure!

Please make a

donation to support my participation in Team In Training and help advance

LLS's mission.

I hope you will visit my web site often.

Be sure to check back frequently to see my progress. Thanks for your

support!