Riding to fight Kids Cancer

[piper6909]

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[maytag]

Originally Posted by piper6909

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Thanks for the Bump. Somehow I had missed this thread.
I just donated.... how about the rest of y'all!??!

(Peer Pressure Works)

[itsnotanova]

Another donation for this year coming your way. It's nice to see how far modern medicine has come on fighting cancer (My mom just beat stage 4 a few months ago), but there's still a long way to go.

[piper6909]

Originally Posted by itsnotanova

Another donation for this year coming your way. It's nice to see how far modern medicine has come on fighting cancer (My mom just beat stage 4 a few months ago), but there's still a long way to go.

Keeping her in my thoughts, Woody. I'm thankful every day I'm cancer-free, or at least undetectable.

[Heiko]

We can be thankful every day if we're healthy... all the money in the world doesn't seem to be able to buy the luxury of being healthy. It's so sad that it's taken so long to come this far in Cancer research but it's always encouraging to hear some positive stories around this whole thing. I've been participating in this Great Cycle Challenge for the 4th year in a row now and in my opinion it is a great event. It's for the kids and if it helps put a smile on their face and gives them a few days of happiness its all worth it.
You guys are all awesome and I want to thank you for all your support.

Here's my ride history for this event for the last 3yrs
2017 June 1,709 km $3,537.52
2018 June 2,098 km $1,463.31
2019 June 1,483 km $1,530
2020 Aug ? $910 so far

PS if you want to do your own ride... sign up and ride
Canada - https://greatcyclechallenge.ca/
USA - https://greatcyclechallenge.com/

Cheers and thank you all,
Heiko

[itsnotanova]

Originally Posted by piper6909

Keeping her in my thoughts, Woody. I'm thankful every day I'm cancer-free, or at least undetectable.

Thank you and congrats. I too am thankful for being cancer free and encourage people to get testing done when they can. I have a family history of cancer and had a colonoscopy and endoscopy done when I was 45. The procedure wasn't bad at all because they knock you out. The worst part is the cleansing of your digestive system the day before and even that's not too bad.

[paulofto]

Originally Posted by itsnotanova

The worst part is the cleansing of your digestive system the day before and even that's not too bad.

My father died of colon cancer at 57 back in the ‘80’s. Due to that me and my siblings have regular colonoscopies. As you said the prep is the worst part.

Here is Dave Barry’s Experience. It is hilarious.

https://www.miamiherald.com/living/liv-columns-blogs/dave-barry/article1928847.html