#panmass2018email

[pmcmarty]

Happy Labor Day Weekend!

With the arrival of Labor Day weekend I am sure you all are thinking:

"Was it too late to donate to Marty's Pan-Mass Challenge ride?"

I am writing to ease your concerns that and say that:

No, it is not too late to donate to Marty's Pan-Mass Challenge ride!

I am so close to hitting my $10,000 goal that I can almost taste it. I'm less than $400 away.

You've donated last year and I'm hoping you will donate again. If you are willing and able to make a donation this year for my 2018 PMC ride that directly funds research & patient care at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute here in Boston, here are the links:

Click here to make $25 donation

Click here to make a $50 donation

Click here to make a $100 donation

Click here to make a $250 donation

Click here to make a $500 donation

Click here to make a $1,000 donation

Click here to make a donation of any other amount

Marty Middelmann

PS - Be sure to check to see if your, or your spouse’s, employer (or both) has a corporate gift matching program. It’s a great way to double (or triple) your donation!

PPS - Your donation is tax deductible and 100% will go to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

My 2018 Fund Raising Goal: $10,000

My Progress Towards that Goal: 96%

[pmcmarty]

Cookout with the PHamily...

Every year the PHAT Tuesday team has a cookout / pool party where all the local members of the team, their families, and past and present pedal partners get together for a fun, relaxed afternoon by the pool.

This year our current pedal partner, Hannah, couldn’t make it because she is currently battling an infection related to her treatment and has been in the ICU at Boston Children’s Hospital for the past few weeks. One of our team members had a life size cardboard cutout of Hannah made so she could be represented at the cookout. Below is a picture of “Hannah” with our other pedal partners from past years.

All the kids pictured here have battled cancer. Some even still have the scars from where their ports used to be. They remind us why we ride the Pan-Mass Challenge every year.

The PHamily

Team PHAT Tuesday prides itself on the fact that not only are we a PMC fund raising team, but also we are a “family”. A family that consists of riders, former riders, spouses & significant others, and past & present Pedal Partners and their families, 

It’s a great group of people and I am honored to count them all as friends.

Fund Raising Update: 71%

I am getting closer to my personal goal of $10,000. I am just over 71% of the way to that goal.. I am less than $1,000 of the way to my next intermediate goal of $8,000, which is the Heavy Hitter fund raising level. With any luck, and your help, I should be able to hit that by this weekend.

Remember to check to see if your, or your spouse’s, employer (or both) has a corporate gift matching program. It’s a great way to double (or triple) your donation!

All the Pedal Partners pictured above have benefited from research and treatment at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. All the donation links below help make that research and treatment possible, so click on one of them...

Click here to make $25 donation

Click here to make a $50 donation

Click here to make a $100 donation

Click here to make a $250 donation

Click here to make a $500 donation

Click here to make a $1,000 donation

Click here to make a donation of any other amount

Click here to donate using your Fidelity Donor Advised Fund

Thank You,

Marty Middelmann

Your donation is tax deductible and 100% will go to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

My 2018 Fund Raising Goal: $10,000

My Progress Towards that Goal: 71%

[pmcmarty]

PMC 2018 is less than 2 weeks away...

With less than two weeks to go the training doesn’t stop, even when it rains. So on Sunday it was time to set up the trainer in the basement, put “le Tour” on, and start pedaling.

It was raining so much on Sunday, that is was even raining on my virtual ride on Zwift!

“Hannah” Update...

Our Pedal Partner, Hannah, has recently had some complications with her treatment and is currently in the ICU.  That is all the details that are available to us at the moment. All of us are pulling for her. We hope to see her and her family at the Pedal Partner stop in Middleboro on the Saturday of the PMC, but the prospects of that happening aren’t looking good.

Fund Raising Update

I am still a long way away form my goal of $10,000. I just crossed the 61% milestone this past weekend. I am more than 75% of the way to making Heavy Hitter level. It would be nice to hit at least that by PMC weekend.

Remember to check to see if your, or your spouse’s, employer (or both) has a corporate gift matching program. It’s a great way to double (or triple) your donation!

Click here to make $25 donation

Click here to make a $50 donation

Click here to make a $100 donation

Click here to make a $250 donation

Click here to make a $500 donation

Click here to make a $1,000 donation

Click here to make a donation of any other amount

Click here to donate using your Fidelity Donor Advised Fund

Thank You,

Marty Middelmann

Your donation is tax deductible and 100% will go to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

My 2018 Fund Raising Goal: $10,000

My Progress Towards that Goal: 61%

[pmcmarty]

2018 Pedal Partner

Hannah

This year our team’s Pedal Partner this year is Hannah. She is 15 years old and battling cancer for the third time in her life.

“...for the third time in her life” Let that sink in.

About a month ago Hannah posted this on FaceBook:

Two years ago today my life changed and for the third time I was told “you have cancer”, something nobody wants to hear once. Cancer and it’s side affects have claimed my childhood since I was two (13 years) and I can’t remember a time when I was truly healthy and “a normal kid.” I’ve had so many missed opportunities and events because of the terrible disease. I’ve battled through years of chemotherapy, thousands of surgeries, multiple ports/lines/broviacs placed, months straight in the hospital (adding up to years), two bone marrow transplants, severe pain, up to eighteen shots per day, multiple trips to ICU, radiation therapy, thousands of MRI’s, CAT scans and X-rays, multiple seizures, specialists for every part of my body head to foot, and three ambulance rides. On top of all that the emotions of becoming a teenager and kid which is hard enough. Not to mention having to live with my grandparents because my house had to be completely redone due to mold infestation ( thank you to all who helped :)). Despite all that I still wouldn’t change a thing because everything happens for a reason and I’ve also had some great opportunities come because of it. I would have probably never met any of you or other amazing people or be able to sing at Fenway. I would have never been able to have such a close relationship with God. Please continue to pray for me as my journey is not yet finished... 

I really don’t think I can add to this. Hannah sound like quite a remarkable person. I have yet to meet Hannah, but I hope to soon.

Fund Raising Update

It was a good birthday Weekend and my fund raising has shot up to the 44% mark of my 2018 fund raising goal. Now it is the final month before the 2018 PMC and I hope to get closer to that goal with each passing week.

Remember to check to see if your, or your spouse’s, employer (or both) has a corporate gift matching program. It’s a great way to double (or triple) your donation!

Click here to make $25 donation

Click here to make a $50 donation

Click here to make a $100 donation

Click here to make a $250 donation

Click here to make a $500 donation

Click here to make a $1,000 donation

Click here to make a donation of any other amount

Click here to donate using your Fidelity Donor Advised Fund

Thank You,

Marty Middelmann

Your donation is tax deductible and 100% will go to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

My 2018 Fund Raising Goal: $10,000

My Progress Towards that Goal: 44%