I've answered the call to be a hero! I'm having my head shaved to stand in solidarity with kids fighting cancer, but more importantly, to raise money to find cures.
Please support me with a donation to the St. Baldrick's Foundation. This volunteer-driven charity funds more in childhood cancer research grants than any organization except the U.S. government.
Your gift will give hope to infants, children, teens and young adults fighting childhood cancers. So when I ask for your support, I'm really asking you to support these kids. Thank you!
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I met the younger sister of a dear friend - 9 year old diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma, and I learned more about childhood cancer than I ever imagined. She was diagnosed Easter weekend 2009 and fought valiantly for almost a year. I watched her family, extended family and innumerable friends rally, support, encourage and bond over her life and death. Watching that has brought home the reality of the unfairness of life in a whole new way and it has hit me hard. I tripped across a St Baldrick's shavee at a business conference and was immediately interested. I have struggled with my own confidence throughout my life, but my hair and smile were the two things I always believed were attractive and distinctive. My first thought was simply to donate - then I considered the "challenge" of being a shavee. To strip myself down that way, to get that vulnerable, well that just scared me a bunch. And I have a choice in the matter. But of course, anyone going through chemo really doesn't have a choice. And must deal with physical & emotional issues of the illness and (hopefully) the cure. So couldn't I choose, just for a little while, to strip away my hair, the mane by which I define myself? That is how I got here, at least the short version. Will probably share more as we proceed, but here is the overview. I've started the pot with a $100 donation - won't you consider donating a little something to encourage me and to help?
