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Fri, Feb. 18th, 2005, 05:55 pm
Is this thing still on?

While all of my friends are having fun with their LiveJournals, I just let mine sit. Well NO MORE!!

Anyway, the reason I first started this damn thing is to talk about my charity rides. I suppose I'm not doing such a good job of that. (I should probably join in all of the memes my Friends are doing, if I can think of 10 things I've done.) But I suppose I could say why I do this: riding my bike outside in February, get saddle sores, experience the pain. I guess I kind of have to. I started with AIDS rides because I volunteer at a charity (Food and Friends that delivers meals to clients with HIV/AIDS and once I'd seen that, well I wanted to do more. And then my friends started being diagnosed with Leukemia and Lymphoma, and I had to do that, too. I'm not a lot of fun on wekeends, but my girlfriend is pretty supportive of the whole deal and hardly ever minds that I'm tired and sore Saturday night.

So what's up this year? First, a Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Team in Training ride in March in Solvang, CA. (Solvang makes a brief appearance in Sideways.) I'm a Captain for the Team, which means I work on helping novices along and make sure they have enough to eat and drink. It's pretty cool and my fundraising minimum is low in exchange for the work. I only *have* to raise $500 and I pay my own way, so pretty much all of what I raise gets returned to the Society. That's what we economists call a win-win.

I decided to ride again--so soon after my last Leukemia ride--because my good friend Jesse is currently fighting Hodgkin's disease. He's been in chemo for a while now and they're going to have to try a marrow transplant shortly. I'll be thinking of him in California. Also, two of my friends told me about their friend Emily Quinlan, a young lady battling AML, so I'm riding for her, too. (Vicki or Kim, I'm super behind on email; do you have an update?)

I'm also riding an AIDS ride in June. I'm also a Coach for that, so again with the helping. More later.

Will
Current Mood: awake
Current Music: Neko Case, The Tigers Have Spoken
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Fri, Feb. 18th, 2005 03:33 pm (UTC)
[info]x_h00ine

Yay! It's good to see you posting and to see updates on the rides.

Also, Neko Case rocks. It all goes to show that Harry is the New Will.
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Fri, Feb. 18th, 2005 04:35 pm (UTC)
[info]oddprofessor

Emily is doing quite well. She went into remission (the GOOD kind of remission, apparently there are good and not-so-good remissions, who knew?) at the end of her induction chemo. So she's in the third of five planned chemo sessions.

Even then, her chances are 40% that she'll survive.

But right now, she's getting ready to go to San Diego in June to graduate with her class.

This disease sucks.

Ride for my mom, too; she survived breast cancer so that lung cancer could get her instead.
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Tue, Feb. 22nd, 2005 01:16 pm (UTC)
[info]willwheels

I didn't know that there were good and bad remissions, and I didn't know that you could go into remission and still require treatment, but heartening[1] news nonetheless.

[1] Not relative to normal life, but in the bizarro cancer world.

Will

p.s. I think of your mom while I'm out there, too.
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Wed, Feb. 23rd, 2005 09:23 am (UTC)
(Anonymous): Shit! (I mean . . . that's . . . great. Really.)

You have a girlfriend?

- Kevin T. Keith
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