March 18, 2024
Dear Friends, especially Susana, Amy, and Mary (who has already donated twice!) who have already signed on to sponsor me, this is the week when Ride for Roswell has lots of matching donations promised and I'd like to garner some of them. I have also learned that another close friend of many years has been diagnosed with cancer. It is in its early stages and she will have surgery next week. I'm riding for her too.
I'm not sure that many of you have actually heard from me this year on Facebook, but in case you haven't, I've decided to also use email to contact those of you who have sponsored me in the past. I'm hoping that you will once again be generous. To donate from an email, all you need to do is google "Ride for Roswell." Once you get to the website, in the upper right hand corner there is a tab for "Donate." It will take you to a page where you would put in my name to sponsor me, the amount, and how to pay. Thanks so much for your keeping up with me. I hope you and yours are well. Gratefully, Terri
March 6, 2024
The picture above features Kip and myself completing the 60+ miles in the 2023 Ride for Roswell. This year we will still try for the 60+ miler. This year we are riding in honor of Sister Pat Bergan in addition to Katie Creenan and Linda Zotter.
Sister Pat has been a part of our lives for over thirty years. She is the cracker-jack parish administrator, first for St. Andrew's and now for St. Lucy's. Last fall she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and has slogged through radiation and chemotherapy. She is paler, weaker and thinner, but she continues to come to Mass and make tongue-in-cheek announcements at the end. She also continues with her parish ministries, including attending St. Lucy's CYO basketball games!
Katie and Linda continue their battles with metastatic breast cancer. Linda has now had surgery and a number of rounds of chemotherapy and has moved on to immunotherapy. Katie is receiving a brand new medication that I read about in headlines from medical journals that come to me on line. Last year I went to my 50th reunion for graduation from Johns Hopkins Medical School. One of the sessions on scientific breakthroughs during the past year reported that it is now possible to monitor for early tumor recurrence through a blood test for circulating genetic material specific to an individual person's cancer. Today Katie told me that she now is being monitored using this tool.
I ride for Roswell because I know that the treatments that Linda and Katie are receiving and the monitoring that Katie is getting would not have been available were it not for the sort of research that the Ride for Roswell funds. I pray that such research will yield solutions for other cancers too, like Sister Pat's. Please sponsor Kip and me in the Ride for Roswell this year with whatever gift you can afford to give. Gratefully, Terri and Kip