Hello family & friends! 

This is my ninth year participating in the Ride for Roswell. Please consider joining me in supporting medical professionals and scientists as they help people like my husband Bill fight cancer.

Bill was diagnosed nine years ago with multiple myeloma, an incurable cancer of the plasma cells. So many of our family and friends have been diagnosed with cancer and are undergoing treatment. I'm riding to honor all of them. I'm also riding to honor our late cousins, Tim Downs and John Penrod; our late friend Charlie O'Neill, the namesake of our team, and Joe Head, our friend and Charlie's bandmate.

My goal this year is to raise $5,000 to support Roswell and all of its current and future patients.

We feel deep gratitude every day for the doctors, nurses, pharmacists, scientists and other professionals at Roswell. Their efforts give hope to so many people. They are also empowering Bill to lead a full life. We attend our grandchildren's sports games. We can travel, and recently returned from Florida, where we spent much of the winter at the invitation of my brother, Fred. For Bill, doing these things while fighting a cancer that leaves him immunocompromised is possible in large part because of expert care and caring guidance we receive from the experts at Roswell.

If you're able to join me in supporting Roswell, I'll be grateful for your donation.

With gratitude and love,

Denise