Info About Who We Are Doing This For

Just in case you want to learn more about our friends niece, keep up to date with her progress etc...

http://www.caringbridge.org/

once there you need to enter her name (alexareneemoore) as indicated in the below - then you need to fill out some basic contact/registration info





Thanks again everyone and lets try to keep this viral!

Quick Update re: Where to Donate

Just wanted to let everyone know that we now know which fund to donate to.

You have 2 choices in terms of how you can donate money

Choice 1: Make a donation directly to MSKCC and specify that funds go to Patient/Family Services - Quality of Life. This will ensure that you receive tax credit and possibly just make it easier for you

OR (and what I think is the better choice and therefore gets a larger font size)

Choice 2: Send me a check directly. This will allow us to take advantage of the very generous offer by some folks at Pfizer to double our donation. I will amass all donations and let Pfizer know the amount to match

If you don't have my mailing address please email me and i will send it to you (david dot weisfelner AT gmail dot com --> being spam paranoid here)

...and please don't forget - pass this along to friends and family - you can email this web post by clicking on the little envelope below this post

thanks!

OK, Now What?!

So in the past couple of hours, in the few minutes I can spare between job-related work, I have been teaching myself how to use this.

I have spent the last few years of my life, both as a consumer and a professional, studying blogs and now have a new found respect for bloggers. This aint as easy as it looks my friend!

So, what have I done in the past few hours?

Basically I updated the side bar which includes the following

• i have included the following ways you can help, which provides links to the donation page at Sloan Kettering...I am waiting to hear from the family as to where donations should be directed and will update soon. There is also a link to information as to how you can donate blood/platelets

• a section that will chronicle who has donated so far. Since everyone will be donating directly the only way i can find out how big an impact we have made will be to ask everyone to let me know how much they have donated. I'll have to do it manually unless someone can teach me a better way

• an update as to my training...figure i'll post blog entries as to my random thoughts surrounding training, but the section in the side bar will track how many miles i have run in training thus far...broken out by year, month and week to date

other posts to follow may not be related remotely to the marathon so bear with me, hopefully you will find it to be of some sort of redeeming value!

I'm In!!!!!

After completely missing the entry deadline I managed to pull some strings and got myself into the 2007 NYC Marathon
I have decided to try and turn this effort into something bigger. The 3 year old niece of a friend of ours has been diagnosed with a very rare form of cancer. She and her family have already experienced a lifetime of stress, anxiety and medical treatments. I would like to try and raise as much money as possible but not sure yet where to donate. I need to check with the family if they would like donations to be made to help offset family medical expenses at Sloan Kettering or to help fund specific cancer research as it relates to her condition.

I will be posting many more updates to come...including news of my training and how you can help me raise money for this little girl.

See you soon!