Cure Me I’m Irish 2014 Kicks off on Saturday night and we have our most exciting lineup yet! The 7th annual event is going to be the most fun you’ve had while celebrating St. Patrick’s day and the best part is you get to save KIDS with cancer while doing so. Saturday March 8th 2014 starting at 8pm at Lombardo’s …
What is Cure Me I’m Irish?
There are innumerable non-profits doing great work throughout this country – there are countless NB specific foundations here in the US as well. Many of them do important things like providing financial assistance to families or emotional support and there are lots of groups that fund research all over the US. I am proud of what we have been able …
#dosomething
7 years ago Today my newly minted 9 year old started 4th grade. I never gave up hope – an indefensible hope – that he could stay alive this long. However, experiencing it and hoping it will happen are two very different things. I know plenty of parents who shared that same hope whose children are dead and for whom …
Moving the bell curve
Five years ago this week seven year old Max was taken from his family by cancer the same week my own son with cancer had just turned 4. I had an opportunity to get to know Max’s parents because both of our children where chasing down treatment options for our kids – kids that our own hospitals had …
BEAT NB Invades Falmouth 2013
Our Beat NB running team had FORTY ONE runners participating in this years Falmouth Road Race. Combined they raised in excess of $70,000 all while running to help save KIDS with cancer. The day was a truly amazing experience topped off by the runners and their friends and families joining us afterward for an incredibly fun family friendly cookout. …
Guest Post: Beat NB runner Peter Fitzgerald
Donate to Peter’s Running Page Working at Children’s hospital overnights, I sometimes forget where I am. Behind a curtain of poly it is just like any other construction site. But when I go on break, and walk out from behind the poly, I see the children. The children who have hurt themselves playing sports, riding bikes, playing man hunt. They …
Forward
“I don’t know how do you do it?” There are innumerable people who have had a child diagnosed with cancer. And in the maelstrom that follows a diagnosis and the subsequent hell on earth that these families endure that is the one statement that inevitably follows. There are different ways to answer it but it really all comes back to …
There is no normal
This year was my 4th NMTRC conference and what struck me as I prepared to depart for Florida was just how much I was looking forward to it. Exactly what about a two day relapsed neuroblastoma conference is so engrossing that I actually enjoy myself? Is it taking three days off from work? Is it travelling to Orlando Florida? Is …
Runner Spotlight: Peter Fitzgerald
My name is Peter Fitzgerald, I moved to Braintree about 5 years ago from Dorchester. My wife Lisa and I have 3 children Caleigh 10, Maeve 8, and Gavin 6. I am 43 years young, and I am the furthest thing from a runner that I have ever seen. When I first moved here to Braintree, I met some wonderful …
Extraordinary people
This weekend the 3rd grade classmate of a neuroblastoma child – who has been battling NB for over 8 years – decided to have a lemonade stand. He donated the money from his lemonade stand to BEAT NB to help his friend. The letter below was received earlier this year and I wanted to share it with you all. Every …