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Dear All,

Thank you all very much for your encouraging words and monetary support! To date, Greg and I have logged (combined efforts) a several hundred training miles and are just $2,000 shy of our fund raising goals!

Meanwhile, we truly believe that enough is never enough in the fight against cancer. Greg and I ride for a cure, BUT it is your donations that really make the difference in our search for a cure. To thank you in the only way we can for all of the support you provide, we want to bring you and your loved ones on our two hundred mile trek as well. No, I am not asking you to pedal with us - well, actually, I suppose I sort of am!

A friend of ours, Erin Downey, a 7th year rider, shared her idea, which we believe is an incredibly heartfelt and thoughtful one. When you make your (financial or emotional - encouraging words are greatly appreciated and never underestimated!) donation in support of our PMC ride, please let us know the name of the person(s) for whom you would like us to honor and celebrate. We will then make ribbons bearing their names which will adorn our shirts. In dedication to the people who are such a wonderful part of your life, they will ride the Pan Mass Challenge with us through the roads of Massachusetts as we pedal in search for a cure. We need your help and support. Thank you again!

Also, please, if you have already sent a donation, please e-mail us with the name(s) of people for whom you wish us to ride in their honor.

Thank you so much!

With much love,

Amie and Greg

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To all of the wonderful people in my life,

A year ago almost to the day, I wrote to you from my treatment chair.  I had had a particularly gruesome week, with the least of the issues being the devastating news that “while the tumors had shrunk, they have not gone away.”  The cancer was now a chronic disease, one which would need to be managed with life long treatments of chemotherapy and a “wait and see” approach. Worse than that, the follow up statistics…I was told that people in my position had “ten years at most.”

I wallowed in my sorrow for a bit (my mom granted me ten minutes), but then realized that I had a choice.  I could either accept my “fate” or I could decide that I was NOT going to be a statistic.  So, less than four weeks after my last chemo treatment, I joined my husband and our eight other teammates/friends and completed all 200 miles of the PMC (not without Greg’s hand at my back, but I did it)!

From a “THINK I CAN, THINK I CAN” approach, to the finality of “WE DID IT,” this ride was an amazing experience.  I made a choice to live…and I do!  With this same confidence and determination, I returned to my oncologist in October to set a treatment and management plan.  I have a choice and my choice is to live life on my own terms.  Funny, that same stubborn attitude (along with an inordinate amount of support from my friends and family) is what I credit with the updated news. Amazingly, my new CT showed NOTHING…the tumors are gone and I am officially in remission!  That same “chronic disease” is nothing but a very vivid memory.  I AM THE WARRIOR PRINCESS!!

This year, with a larger team and the same determination, on August 7 and 8, “Team Peddle 2 the Mettle,” together with a group of 4,000+ cyclists, will again participate in the nation’s original fundraising bike-a-thon.  The Pan-Mass Challenge, a two day, 200 mile bike ride across Massachusetts, raises funds for cancer research and treatment. Since 1980, the Pan Mass Challenge has raised more than $200 million for life-saving cancer research and treatment at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute through its Jimmy Fund.  In fact, the PMC is the largest single contributor to the Jimmy Fund, bringing in nearly 50 percent of its annual revenue.

Last year, Greg and I bypassed our fundraising targets by raising close to $30,000 from over 300 sponsors, across three continents (THANK YOU TO ALL OF OUR SPONSORS), but we must do it again!  There are too many lives that are touched by this devastating disease. I am asking for emotional support and/or monetary pledges based on this 200 mile bike-a-thon.  I am proud to accept anything you can offer.  Also, many companies match charitable donations made by their employees…and any extra funding helps.  I encourage you to visit the Pan-Mass Challenge website at www.pmc.org to learn more about this exciting institution.  You can make a donation directly on this site and it will benefit my fundraising -  http://www.pmc.org/profile/AW0069. 

If you prefer to mail a donation, please make your check payable to the Pan-Mass Challenge, but mail it directly to me at 137 Bradford Street, Needham, MA 02492.    Thank you for your support and a happy 2010! 

All our love,

Amie White and Family
The PMC's tax ID or EIN number is 04-2746912

Amie's PMC Total

$7,421

Goal

$8,000

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