NoahsMommy
04-01-2007, 07:27 PM
Hey PT Family!!!
As most of you know, I live with Crohn's Disease. Luckily, I'm in remission, but have to be very careful each day so that I stay that way. Even though in remission, I still have my "bad days", but keep positive and thouroughly enjoy my "good days" which, thankfully are more common than not now. Yay!! :)
In surfing the Crohn's & Colitis Website, I found these 'Guts & Glory 5K Walk/Runs' and I'm toying with the idea of forming a walking group...all money raised will go to Crohn's & Colitis Research.
I know that this group is fabulous and DOES actually produce results. At the beginning of this year, reseachers found and isolated the gene that causes not only IBD (Inflammatory Bowel Disease - which is Crohn's & Ulcerative Colitis), but ALL Inflammatory Disease such as Lupus, Rheumatoid Arthritis, etc!!! All due to the money raised via CCFA.org!! This type of research helps not only IBD, but many, many other terrible diseases that so many people have to deal with daily - and many die from. Here is that press release: http://www.ccfa.org/about/press/il23
Anyway, the reason for this thread was to check interest in #1 any local Californians would like to join me on the walk - be in 'Team Kelly' and #2 is if anyone would be interested in sponsoring me/my team??
Please let me know what you think. The Walk is a 5K (about 3 miles) in Los Angeles on Sunday, August 26th. We'll be walking the UCLA campus, so that should be very cool! It starts at 7:00 a.m. so it should still be cool and not blazing...AND, UCLA's campus is FULL of old trees for lots of shade, it should prove to be a nice walk and day. :)
Thanks for reading this and letting me know what you think.
Links:
Direct to LA's Walk: http://ccfa.kintera.org/faf/home/default.asp?ievent=220382
The Route: http://www.ccfa.org/chapters/losangeles/media/pdf/Route%20Map.pdf
If I get the support I need, I'll create the Team and a website to keep everyone updated. Yay! I'm so excited...more so that I'm physically able to do this, I've always, always wanted to do this walk but have been much to ill to even think about it. I've grown up doing these types of walks, but for other organizations - now there is one that means the world to me, there really could be a cure at the rate they're going. Yay!!!
Love & Hugs,
Kelly :)
As most of you know, I live with Crohn's Disease. Luckily, I'm in remission, but have to be very careful each day so that I stay that way. Even though in remission, I still have my "bad days", but keep positive and thouroughly enjoy my "good days" which, thankfully are more common than not now. Yay!! :)
In surfing the Crohn's & Colitis Website, I found these 'Guts & Glory 5K Walk/Runs' and I'm toying with the idea of forming a walking group...all money raised will go to Crohn's & Colitis Research.
I know that this group is fabulous and DOES actually produce results. At the beginning of this year, reseachers found and isolated the gene that causes not only IBD (Inflammatory Bowel Disease - which is Crohn's & Ulcerative Colitis), but ALL Inflammatory Disease such as Lupus, Rheumatoid Arthritis, etc!!! All due to the money raised via CCFA.org!! This type of research helps not only IBD, but many, many other terrible diseases that so many people have to deal with daily - and many die from. Here is that press release: http://www.ccfa.org/about/press/il23
Anyway, the reason for this thread was to check interest in #1 any local Californians would like to join me on the walk - be in 'Team Kelly' and #2 is if anyone would be interested in sponsoring me/my team??
Please let me know what you think. The Walk is a 5K (about 3 miles) in Los Angeles on Sunday, August 26th. We'll be walking the UCLA campus, so that should be very cool! It starts at 7:00 a.m. so it should still be cool and not blazing...AND, UCLA's campus is FULL of old trees for lots of shade, it should prove to be a nice walk and day. :)
Thanks for reading this and letting me know what you think.
Links:
Direct to LA's Walk: http://ccfa.kintera.org/faf/home/default.asp?ievent=220382
The Route: http://www.ccfa.org/chapters/losangeles/media/pdf/Route%20Map.pdf
If I get the support I need, I'll create the Team and a website to keep everyone updated. Yay! I'm so excited...more so that I'm physically able to do this, I've always, always wanted to do this walk but have been much to ill to even think about it. I've grown up doing these types of walks, but for other organizations - now there is one that means the world to me, there really could be a cure at the rate they're going. Yay!!!
Love & Hugs,
Kelly :)