Giveaway (Ended) & Fundraiser: Win a 1oz Silver Round + Support Pancreatic Cancer Research
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Those of you who have been on the boards for a while may remember the charity auctions I ran in the past. All the items were donated, and all the proceeds funded pancreatic cancer research and a few other great causes. In total, over $47,000 was raised through everyone's generosity. I loved running them, but not too long after I got out of college, the logistics to make them work became too much to keep them going. I'm forever grateful for the support they received, and have continued to work closely with and support the Hirshberg Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research in the ensuing years.
This year, I decided to participate in their 5k run (the LA Cancer Challenge), with the caveat that in June I couldn't run 90 seconds without having to take a break. I trained over the summer, and on Sunday, I'll run the whole thing--no walking. So today I have an ask and a giveaway. If you're so inclined, the Hirshberg Foundation does great work supporting research for this terrible disease and can always use support. I wrote up a bit about pancreatic cancer as well as my story here: http://support.pancreatic.org/goto/jeremy_katz. As was the case in my auctions, beyond just raising money, I'm hoping to make people aware of a disease that's not as common as others, but incredibly deadly. If you are inclined to make a donation, I'm personally matching up to $2100, my day job will match my donation, and my parents offered to match, as well. So if I can raise $2100, the Foundation will get $8400.
The giveaway: Thanks for reading this far! There are three traditional medals given out in a race. I don't have anything that would be like a bronze medal, and gold, well, sorry, this giveaway isn't that good. So here's a 1oz silver round struck by the Elemetal Mint, which can be symbolic of the silver medal I most certainly won't get in this race. I'll finish, but unless only one other person is running (and I know that's not the case), the odds I finish top 2 are... not good. And that's just fine with me. No donation of any sort required--just reply to enter. I'll draw a winner on Tuesday evening; enter by 5pm PT to be included.
Congrats to @MsMorrisine on the giveaway!
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Such research is needed on it. Screening test may be coming soon!
Thx!
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keep up the workouts to keep healthy!
Donation made. Go get em brother. If I win, sell the silver and donate the money.
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Right on Jeremy! It's good to see you are still honoring the memory!!
“We are only their care-takers,” he posed, “if we take good care of them, then centuries from now they may still be here … ”
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Best of luck
Great cause, good luck!
Donated. Great cause - lost my dad to the disease.
Don't enter me in the giveaway, please let someone else win, just also wanted to say I'm thrilled that you have worked your way to get into shape for the race. That's a gift you gave yourself, while you're doing this for a good cause. Enjoy the race!
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Nice work. Thanks for your dedication and the opportunity.
Great work Jeremy.... and a very worthy cause. Cheers, RickO
Great work Jeremy
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I was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in August 2011. The only symptoms were a slight pain in my left side and a little bit of jaundice. Two weeks later I had an operation called a whipple at St. Francis Hospital, Hartford CT. 28 days later I got out of the hospital. Over the next year I went to Chemo for six months and then 35 radiation treatments. My recovering was long and I can't thank the doctors, nurses and staff at this exceptional hospital enough. My wife and daughter were there every step of the way working tirelessly to get me on my feet, love them dearly. I spent many long painful days reading posts on this forum that helped me to keep going. This disease is one of the most fatal but if found early it is survivable. I am working on my tenth year of being cancer free please consider making a donation, every little bit will help.
Wow! A friend just had something very similar a few months ago and also has a good prognosis. As I mentioned to him (and of course he knew it) he got really lucky having an obvious symptom that needed to be checked out. A lot of the research is in figuring out how to find it early in the majority of people who don't show symptoms until it's too late. Here's to many more decades!
I lost my best friend and business partner to pancreatic cancer.
We were inseparable since about the age of 16.
He fought a valiant 12 year struggle and I have not met a man as brave.
Not a day goes by that I do not think of him.
I support the Siteman Center in St. Louis and just recently sent them a check, so unfortunately cannot at this time help your cause but thank you for the post and for bringing awareness.
Thank you.
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This is a terrible disease that has affected my family as well. Thanks for your efforts.
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Thank you for sharing this.
I can't imagine your struggle but am glad you kicked its a**.
Wishing you continued good health.
Good luck. Great cause. Thanks for the opportunity.
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Great work, Jeremy. All of us down in the trenches of clinical medicine dread making this diagnosis in our patients.
Thanks for all of your efforts!
Great to see you still helping to fight this nasty thing, Jeremy. I made a donation.
Back when you started the auctions my dad was fighting it. Your auctions gave me a way to help in a small way and helped me get my mind on other things. Thank you. You have always been a very kind person.
This is great
Keep up the good work Jeremy
Good luck on the run.
I was thinking about those old auctions a few months ago. I loved participating in them. Donation made, but do not enter me in the giveaway, please.
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I appreciate all the support—thank you! Yesterday was surprisingly nice, albeit a lot colder than I’ve been used to. Anyhoo, I got the run in (I decided to go to a park with lovely views the whole way around), and I even got to see a 747
Congrats man!!!
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@bigmarty58 so glad you’re here, inspiring story !
@airplanenut great cause!, donation incoming. Thanks for doing this.
Done. I’m always up for a good cause.
Thanks Jeremy!
Best of luck!!!!!
De plane, Boss. De Plane!
Thanks for the contest.
I'll check the site.
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Good luck! A great cause, thanks for spreading awareness.
Only an airplane nut would know what kinda plane that is from 30,000 feet
Wait, what's the altitude?
Oh, probably 4000-5000' or so. I was only a few miles (5-7 I'd guess) from SeaTac, and a maybe a mile or two offset from the departure path. He had a ways to go, though... cargo off to Seoul.
Thanks and best of luck airplanenut.
But I should add... a 747 anywhere in the 30s is still easily identifiable. You just can't mistake it. Well, I can't. Then again, when planes fly past my house I can identify the fun ones by sound alone
Thank you.
Thanks for the contest.
Donated, and my company matches! Now if I can only find the correct contact email for them to send the match form to, I don't imagine "info@pancreatic.org" is where it should go but it's where both emails have come from so far. .
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Tuesday at 5PM has passed, and Google's random number generator has spoken! @MsMorrisine gets the silver!
Thanks to everyone for your donations and for entering. Quadrupled, we're over $7200 right now. Not bad for half an hour of jogging
wow. glad to see the coffers overflowing and you are up for a 5k. pretty soon you can chase RYK before shows... might even catch him, too.
thanks for the give-away and prize.
There are PLENTY of people I'll be able to catch at coin shows. Let's not start adding the ones who are in shape to the list.