PANCREATIC CANCER WALK/RUN

HEY EVERYONE ;  ONE OF THE MEMBERS OF MY CHURCH HAS JUST BEEN
DIAGNOSED WITH PANCREATIC CANCER;  THE PROGNOSIS IS NOT GOOD.
I SAW A FLYER ABOUT A CHARITABLE WALK COMING UP AND I AM GOING TO
DO THIS IN HONOR OF HIM :  ANYONE WANT TO WALK WITH ME ?

http://www.kintera.org/faf/home/default.asp?ievent=277586&li s=1&kntae277586=AE72EDC16B734EAE93B18B746FE3B2AD

Darla,

You are so sweet to do this in his honor.  I have been feeliong melancholy since my Mom's birthday was on the 7th and it will be 5 years since her passing on September 18th.  She did not have pancreatic cancer but she had Cholangio Carcinoma. It is an aggressive cancer like the pancreatic cancer and the sympotoms are almost identicle. They both fall in the same category except the Cholangio one is rare. She was diagnosed June 24th and passed on 9-18 it was horrible.  
When is the walk? I didn't see a date? Maybe I can join you and do it in the honor of your friend and my mother.

Let me know.
Hugs,

THE WALK IS OCTOBER 12TH; i KNOW HOW YOU MISS YOUR MOM AND I KNOW SHE
WOULD BE VERY PROUD TO HAVE SUCH A LOVING DAUGHTER 

I will most likely register for the 2 mile walk... I am a chicken never done a 5K... Is this in MD???
Ok send me the link to my email addy. I really can't see all the info. 

Thanks for the kind words Darla.

I WILL POST THE LINK WHEN I FIND IT ;  YES ITS IN BELAIR, MARYLAND

Yikes that's 2 hours from here.  Ok let me see how I can work that out. 
I will donate if I can not make it.
Hugs

Darla,

Are you joining a team or forming one?  Let me know.

Thanks for the link....  Maybe I can meet you then we can ride up there together.

i'M THINKING OF FORMING A TEAM;  I AM SURE I CAN GET SOME OTHER CHURCH
CONGREGATION MEMBERS TO WALK OR AT THE VERY LEAST DONATE.

Darla,

First and foremost I will keep that family in my prayers. I lost my father to pancreatic cancer in Feb VERY quickly after diagnosis. I had actually already seen this walk because I am a big advocate of the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (PANCAN), but I may be on work travel quite a bit in October - I was holding off on registering for the wal****il I got my travel schedule.

If I can't walk, I will certainly sponsor you in honor of your friend and in memory of my dad, and so many others that we lose to this cancer.

The frustrating thing is that, statistically, pancreatic is the most deadly of the cancers, yet in  only 1% of NIH's cancer research money went to this one. 

Thanks for doing this - if we can fund research so that one less family has to go through this hell, it is worth it!

Caryn

Thanks Caryn:  I spoke with his wife yesterday and quite frankly there is no hope.
He's in his late 70's so the age thing will not work in his favor;  He has been put into
hospice care.  Mom and Dad visited him last Thursday and Mom told me he is not
doing well at all :  Hes not eating and when he does try and eat it comes right back up.

Unfortunatly they never had children so his wife will be left alone.

I am going to see if  I can get some members if the congregation to walk with me.