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pour notre participation à l’événement La Fin de semaine des courses d'Ottawa Tamarack 2024

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MEMC Crew

Montant recueilli : 66 088,06 $
Objectif : 52 444,00 $
100,00 % recueillis
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Notre histoire…

Hello 

We are a group of walkers and runners raising awareness of pancreatic cancer, inspiring hope for survivors, and raising money for pancreatic cancer (PC) research at The Ottawa Hospital (TOH). 

Most of us will be training for one of the events (2k, 5k, 10k, 1/2 marathon, marathon) at Ottawa Race Weekend (ORW) on May 25 and 26, 2024. 

Sindy's team, now MEMC Crew, has participated in ORW nine times and raised $447,556. Our goal this year is to top $500k!!!!

We are supporting our captain, Sindy Hooper, now living with metastatic stage IV pancreatic cancer. She was diagnosed with PC (adenocarcinoma) Jan 2, 2013 and extremely fortunate to be a candidate for the potentially curative Whipple surgery. She had the 10 hour surgery, and then 18 rounds of in hospital IV chemotherapy (Gemcitabine) and 28 days radiation with oral chemo. She defied the odds and had 9 1/2 years of cancer free living before the first metastasis to her left lung in August 2021. She had surgery to remove that met + 3 rounds of chemotherapy. Unfortunately, a year later September 2022, she had more mets; to her left lung pleura, t5 spine and a rib. No longer a candidate for surgery and now in stage IV, back on chemotherapy, Sindy was told she (realistically) had 1 year to live. September 2023 she reached that one year survival mark but the cancer in her pleura began to spread. A new chemotherapy was started, a PleurX catheter inserted into her left lung, and an updated prognosis of 6 months is what she's now living with. 

Sindy lives each day with gratitude and does her best to make every moment count. She's giving back, encouraging others to be active, inspiring hope for other PC survivors, raising awareness and generating more funding for cancer research ...... being part of a movement that will ultimately help find a cure or (at the very least) effective treatments for those of us with pancreatic cancer. 

We are asking for your help to take a moment and give from your heart to help find better treatments for pancreatic cancer (which would also extend to other cancers), to give people hope of surviving this devastating cancer. Every dollar that you give ensures that researchers at The Ottawa Hospital can continue working to improve outcomes for cancer patients like myself. 

If you'd like to join our team or donate, please find the links below (just off to the right). 

If you'd like to read more about Sindy's story or donate directly to her fundraising page you can find that link off to the bottom right under "donate to a team member". 

Make every moment count!

Team MEMC Crew

Membres de l’équipe

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Donateurs récents

Date du don Nom du donateur Montant du don
May 14 Curtis Porter 28,25 $
May 14 Ventilation & Sign Experts 108,76 $
May 14 Steph Sethi 28,25 $
May 14 Mark Fagan Good luck to all participants. 28,25 $
May 13 Barbara Levinson Montant non divulgué
May 13 Janet and Mike Way to go, Laurie!!! Montant non divulgué
May 13 Anonyme 55,09 $
May 13 HE You are our inspiration Hans and Erika Montant non divulgué
May 12 Miriam Salamon Have fun out there, Laurie! 55,09 $
May 11 Diane Ste-Marie Wish I could be there this year running with you Richard! Perhaps next year. All the best on the 3 events you plan to do Montant non divulgué