"Here 4 U"
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Team 2008 - Équipe 2008
The Road to Victory We will be part of a life-changing, world-changing event - The Weekend to End Breast Cancer benefiting the Jewish General Hospital. During one amazing weekend, we will unite with thousands of women and men to walk 60 kilometres on The Road to Victory over this disease. And in one weekend, we will do something amazing. We will make a change in ourselves, our communities and in the world.
Route vers la victoire
Nous ferons partie de un événement majeur pour la vie et pour un monde meilleur - Le Week-end pour vaincre le cancer du sein au bénéfice de l'Hôpital général juif. Durant cette extraordinaire fin de semaine, nous nous joindrons à des milliers de femmes et d'hommes pour une marche de 60 kilomètres sur la route de la victoire afin d'éliminer cette maladie. Et en une fin de semaine, nous suffirons accompli quelque chose d'incroyable. Nous apporterons une modification dans nous-mêmes, nos communautés et dans le monde.
Shelley Tassé - Team Captain
The journey is not over, and will not be over until this horrible disease is wiped out!
Thus I begin my fund-raising efforts immediately for the 2008 walk!
I was humbled to have been a part of such an incredible but unfortunate journey. Tears, joy, empathy, sympathy, determination, courage, and yes blisters and sore muscles, but what an overwhelming accomplishment to have achieved!
I was moved by the supporters on the streets, the pink ribbons tied to trees and houses along our route, all pushing us on to achieve the end to such a terrible disease that destroys families and communities.
But the journey is not over, “Here 4 U” has signed on again for 2008, because we have made a commitment to walk until we do not lose another woman or man.
It is hard to look away and pretend it is not happening when you walk beside a woman who is in the process of battling this disease, a woman who tells you that there is no more hope for her, the cancer was found too late, and that she is walking this year because she will not be here to walk next year. How do you stop?! How can you?
So please, when someone asks you for a donation, take a moment and look at your Mothers, Wives, Daughters, Sisters, Nieces, and close Friends, then sign the form and give what you can, every penny adds up, and goes to the people we love and want to protect!
The journey is not over, and will not be over until this horrible disease is wiped out!
Thus I begin my fund-raising efforts immediately for the 2008 walk!
I was humbled to have been a part of such an incredible but unfortunate journey. Tears, joy, empathy, sympathy, determination, courage, and yes blisters and sore muscles, but what an overwhelming accomplishment to have achieved!
I was moved by the supporters on the streets, the pink ribbons tied to trees and houses along our route, all pushing us on to achieve the end to such a terrible disease that destroys families and communities.
But the journey is not over, “Here 4 U” has signed on again for 2008, because we have made a commitment to walk until we do not lose another woman or man.
It is hard to look away and pretend it is not happening when you walk beside a woman who is in the process of battling this disease, a woman who tells you that there is no more hope for her, the cancer was found too late, and that she is walking this year because she will not be here to walk next year. How do you stop?! How can you?
So please, when someone asks you for a donation, take a moment and look at your Mothers, Wives, Daughters, Sisters, Nieces, and close Friends, then sign the form and give what you can, every penny adds up, and goes to the people we love and want to protect!
Cynthia Krzepicki - Team Co-Captain
Some have to search deep down , others it is right on the surface, either way we have all somehow been affected directly or indirectly by breast cancer.
My grandmother On (My Birth mothers side)had a double masectomy at 58 years of age!
My second Mom lost her battle to breast cancer at the young age of 38! I was 12 and my baby brother was only 8! Back then there were no ultrasound machines and the only way to determine if the cancer had spread after her mastectomy was "exploratory surgery" where they cut you open end to end. Afer many many chemo treatments radiation and many many morphine injections she lost her battle in Dec 1972.
Thanks to improved technology and research into this disease many people now avoid those drastic invasive procedures, but a Cure is still neeeded!!
In her memory and for anyone who has ever heard that devastating diagnosis " You have breast cancer"I will walk.
I am proud to be part of the "Here 4 U" team
and that is why I am walking once again
We did the 60km trek on Aug 25-26 /07
and it was an amazing spiritual one!!
I hope your donations to sponser me will continue to flow.
I am humbled to be able to walk in this event and to contribute my part at last!
Helen Northrup
I thought of doing the walk last year, but that is all I did.
On August 25, 2007 I waited at one of the pit stops to show my support to my dearest friend Cynthia and her team. Seeing all the walkers arriving there, I felt the atmosphere of their purpose. They walked as one, with one goal in mind. I was overwhelmed by their selfless acts of giving of themselves for a purpose to benefit ALL OF US.
That is what pushed me over the edge and made me commit to join them this year to walk in memory of those we have lost, and for those that will never have to walk for this cause.
I am not athletic in any sense of the word. I do not exercise. I do not lift weights. I do not go to "the gym". I do not jog. I do not swim. I do not take the stairs when the elevator is available. But I will walk on the weekend of August 22-24, 2008. I will walk with thousands of women and men for the purpose of eradicating a monstrous, ugly and despicable enemy that robs us all of loved ones who were and are targeted daily. This enemy is breast cancer. Breast cancer searches out the rich, the poor, the young and old and the in-between. Every one of us has been affected by the circumstances of this notorious disease, whether we have lost someone or know someone who has been victimized by breast cancer.
On August 22-24, 2008 I will walk for Danielle who fought this enemy with strength and determination, but lost the fight. She left a child to grow up without a mother, a husband to continue life's journey without his beloved wife, a father to bury his daughter and siblings who feel the void every day of their lives. I will walk for Jodie's mother who is at war with this enemy at the present time. I will walk with the hope that my daughters will never have to do this walk. I will walk with the hope that my grandchildren and your grandchildren will never know of , or hear the words "breast cancer". I will walk for my beloved brother who was taken by this enemy before he had the time to marry and love a wife and children. Although not specifically breast cancer, but nonetheless, cancer, I watched him being robbed day after day of his youth and his future having his life siphoned away from him. I watched helplessly as he faded away slowly. I had no army to fight the enemy. I will walk for my mother-in-law, Alice, whom I never had the honour of meeting; who left my husband motherless at the tender age of 19. He too watched the destruction this enemy left in it’s wake.
Several years ago I had a lump removed from my breast. While the effects of waiting for the results were psychologically excruciating to both myself and my family, I was one of the lucky ones. It was benign. What a relief!!
I will walk for all of those who were not so lucky. I will walk with the hope that this intruder will no longer find a place to live. I will walk with the hope that this monster will die before it kills anyone else, and although so many battles have been lost to this enemy, I will walk with the hope that we will win this war.
Please, please help me in this journey by donating to this cause; a cause that each and every one of us has been touched by. A cause that needs funds in order to find THE CURE. With your donation I will walk for you, for me, for our mothers, grandmothers, sisters, daughters, nieces, and yes, even males in our lives.
Please support my walk with your donation and the knowledge that your donation brings us all a step closer to the termination of a heinous disease and a future when we will not ever hear again the words “you have breast cancer”.
I thought of doing the walk last year, but that is all I did.
On August 25, 2007 I waited at one of the pit stops to show my support to my dearest friend Cynthia and her team. Seeing all the walkers arriving there, I felt the atmosphere of their purpose. They walked as one, with one goal in mind. I was overwhelmed by their selfless acts of giving of themselves for a purpose to benefit ALL OF US.
That is what pushed me over the edge and made me commit to join them this year to walk in memory of those we have lost, and for those that will never have to walk for this cause.
I am not athletic in any sense of the word. I do not exercise. I do not lift weights. I do not go to "the gym". I do not jog. I do not swim. I do not take the stairs when the elevator is available. But I will walk on the weekend of August 22-24, 2008. I will walk with thousands of women and men for the purpose of eradicating a monstrous, ugly and despicable enemy that robs us all of loved ones who were and are targeted daily. This enemy is breast cancer. Breast cancer searches out the rich, the poor, the young and old and the in-between. Every one of us has been affected by the circumstances of this notorious disease, whether we have lost someone or know someone who has been victimized by breast cancer.
On August 22-24, 2008 I will walk for Danielle who fought this enemy with strength and determination, but lost the fight. She left a child to grow up without a mother, a husband to continue life's journey without his beloved wife, a father to bury his daughter and siblings who feel the void every day of their lives. I will walk for Jodie's mother who is at war with this enemy at the present time. I will walk with the hope that my daughters will never have to do this walk. I will walk with the hope that my grandchildren and your grandchildren will never know of , or hear the words "breast cancer". I will walk for my beloved brother who was taken by this enemy before he had the time to marry and love a wife and children. Although not specifically breast cancer, but nonetheless, cancer, I watched him being robbed day after day of his youth and his future having his life siphoned away from him. I watched helplessly as he faded away slowly. I had no army to fight the enemy. I will walk for my mother-in-law, Alice, whom I never had the honour of meeting; who left my husband motherless at the tender age of 19. He too watched the destruction this enemy left in it’s wake.
Several years ago I had a lump removed from my breast. While the effects of waiting for the results were psychologically excruciating to both myself and my family, I was one of the lucky ones. It was benign. What a relief!!
I will walk for all of those who were not so lucky. I will walk with the hope that this intruder will no longer find a place to live. I will walk with the hope that this monster will die before it kills anyone else, and although so many battles have been lost to this enemy, I will walk with the hope that we will win this war.
Please, please help me in this journey by donating to this cause; a cause that each and every one of us has been touched by. A cause that needs funds in order to find THE CURE. With your donation I will walk for you, for me, for our mothers, grandmothers, sisters, daughters, nieces, and yes, even males in our lives.
Please support my walk with your donation and the knowledge that your donation brings us all a step closer to the termination of a heinous disease and a future when we will not ever hear again the words “you have breast cancer”.