I must admit, after sending the email at 10.30pm, I stayed up till 1am refreshing refreshing refreshing refreshing my homepage.. My first 100$!! yayyyy!!!
I woke up the next day and checked my email
You have received a donation
You have received a donation
You have received a donation
Those 5 words, for the next few weeks, would be equivalent to "will you marry me" if you were the marrying type that is...
Few days later I had made 600$!! Still hundreds away from the 2500$ minimum target for the ride but I was well on my way.
I was overwhelmed by the donations, kind words and support of people in my life, I expected to have shoes, tomatoes and other ripe fruits and veggies thrown at me each time I would open my email in a cyber-kind-of way but I was soo wrong.
Every time I would read a friend's message, I was this amazing person fundraising to find a cure for cancer, standing on a pedestal, crowds cheering, flowers flying, i'm waving to the crowds, carried on shoulders smiling away, my curls floating in the wind...Little did they know that all I felt was worry. I was now worried trapped choking no way out! I had to bike from Toronto to Niagara,
What have I gotten myself into???
Monday, May 16, 2011
I hate asking for money!
OH NOOOO!! Not one of those emails again!! I hate asking my friends and family for money it is too awkward! I remind myself I am not asking them to fund me for my laser hair removal (which i just started and by the way is awesome..never have my legs been so smooth).
Everyone has been affected by cancer in their lives whether at the individual level or hitting people close to their hearts. It is such a sneaky disease and I would be the one to tell you as I spent the last 8 years of my life in the lab trying to understand its screwed up mind!
...But as soon as I get closer and closer I run out of funds and I halt and slave away writing grants to get more funding amidst frustration and sleepless nights full of nightmares and a bogey-man whose face usually ressembles my supervisor's face when he realizes we didnt get funding to continue our project.
....Great cancer research is happening in the country but we are still limited by funding nation-wide and there is money to fund less than 20% of researchers at times although most of them are doing amazing work!
20 March 2011, I pressed: send
Everyone has been affected by cancer in their lives whether at the individual level or hitting people close to their hearts. It is such a sneaky disease and I would be the one to tell you as I spent the last 8 years of my life in the lab trying to understand its screwed up mind!
...But as soon as I get closer and closer I run out of funds and I halt and slave away writing grants to get more funding amidst frustration and sleepless nights full of nightmares and a bogey-man whose face usually ressembles my supervisor's face when he realizes we didnt get funding to continue our project.
....Great cancer research is happening in the country but we are still limited by funding nation-wide and there is money to fund less than 20% of researchers at times although most of them are doing amazing work!
20 March 2011, I pressed: send
I signed up!
For a couple of years now, I have watched them go...thousands of participants young and old, wheel away, as if to say: cancer eat my dust! and i have thought about it.. only thought, i would humor the idea then dismiss it...after all a 200 Km bike ride is not for someone like me despite the good cause behind it!
I am NOT an athletic person and I repeat I am NOT an athletic person! I do not run to hit back a volley-ball, to slam dunk a basket-ball, to shoot a foot-ball instead i run away from balls so i recently thought to try dodge-ball where you actually do run away from the ball! but that too i couldnt handle as the pain of being hit by the ball drove me away after the first session without giving a second thought for my 50$ used in joining the team, but now that's another story...
In March 2011, I called my friend Kristin, an inspirational person who herself beat cancer few years ago like it was whipped cream and then ate it with strawberries! I bribed her with some tabboule, and she helped me set up my Ride To Conquer Cancer 2011!! We were going to do it together this year!
http://www.conquercancer.ca/site/TR/Events/Toronto2011?px=2606375&pg=personal&fr_id=1361
I am NOT an athletic person and I repeat I am NOT an athletic person! I do not run to hit back a volley-ball, to slam dunk a basket-ball, to shoot a foot-ball instead i run away from balls so i recently thought to try dodge-ball where you actually do run away from the ball! but that too i couldnt handle as the pain of being hit by the ball drove me away after the first session without giving a second thought for my 50$ used in joining the team, but now that's another story...
In March 2011, I called my friend Kristin, an inspirational person who herself beat cancer few years ago like it was whipped cream and then ate it with strawberries! I bribed her with some tabboule, and she helped me set up my Ride To Conquer Cancer 2011!! We were going to do it together this year!
http://www.conquercancer.ca/site/TR/Events/Toronto2011?px=2606375&pg=personal&fr_id=1361
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