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Stephanie J Carroll
Goal: $3,600.00
Achieved: $3,560.00
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Bentley & Daphne ~My walking buddies
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I walked all 39.3 miles!!
May 16-17th I walked along with over 2,500 other people to raise over 5.6 million dollars for the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer.
On Saturday I was one of the first 100 people to finish walking a marathon of 26.2 miles in under 8 hours including lunch & water breaks. I had the best surprise when Eddie & all 3 of my dogs come and help motivate me to finish by meeting me at Mile 22, they walked 2 miles with me Saturday.
On Sunday I finished 13.1 miles in under 4 hours with lunch & water breaks. It was amazing to walk from Boston to Canton MA, and then back again the next day. I got many blisters, and was very sore, but my discomfort was all worth it, knowing I could do something to help.
As I crept to the finish line just wanting to get my feet wrapped up by the orthopedic tent, I just told myself over and over that "Blisters don't need Chemo!" so keep going!!! After my feet got wrapped up, and I crawled to the car my mom signed me up for the Avon Walk in 2010 on May 15-16.
I reached my goal of $3,600. Everyone was so helpful, so many people I don't even know have helped support my walk. Denise has been my biggest help & promoter from having her family, friends, & even co-workers donate, because they have seen how Breast Cancer has affected Joan & Denise. It is for the amazing women like Joan, My Aunt Jane, My Gram, and all the other women I know who have had this horrible disease that I want to take a stand and help. We all know someone who has had to fight against Breast Cancer.
~Some examples of how your donation will be used to help Boston area women in need
*$1,000 a patient can get a MRI to help determine if a mass is malignant or benign, or a biopsy of a breast tissue to see if cancer cells are present
*$250 an uninsured breast cancer patient can get chemotherapy treatment or a new patient can get a pre-treatment work up-x-rays and lab work.
*$100 a uninsured woman can get a mammogram to help determine if she has breast cancer or a bone scan to see if breast cancer has spread to her bones.
*$30 a breast cancer patient can purchase a wig when her treatment causes them to lose their hair.
*$25 a breast cancer patient can get transportation to treatment and pay the co-payment for their medication.
*$10 a breast cancer patient can get transportation to treatment.
~DONATIONS can be made from my web page, or from a personal check.
Please make the checks payable to “AVON WALK FOR BREAST CANCER” and mail to me at: 183 Jennifer Drive, Chester NH, 03036.
REMEMBER TO ASK YOUR COMPANY ABOUT MATCHING FUNDS!!!
Matching gift forms should be completed and sent to:
Avon Walk for Breast Cancer - Matching Gifts
Avon Foundation
P.O. Box 1073
Rye, NY 10580
We all need to do something about Breast Cancer and how it attacks the women we love.
Here are some of the women for who I am walking
~My Grandmother
Alice Ruth Driscoll
~My Aunt & Godmother
Jane Sullivan -Survivor
~June Riess
~Joan Dunn -Survivor
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