Marie Fukuda's Team In Training Page
Running for the Cure!
Judy Johanson
Here it comes- Boston 2008!Please continue to send in your donations! Thanks to you, I am PAST my fundraising goal, but our Team still has more than $100,000.00 to raise for this event!
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Check out this site and buy great gifts for a good cause- all profits to benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society! A chance to win shopping sprees with every purchase!
Once again, we join Team in Training- winterbound for our goals in raising funds to fight blood cancers. Thanks to the support of people like you, we have managed to raise over thirty thousand dollars in the past 2 years, and hope to continue these efforts to further LLS' goals of curing blood cancers and improving lives for patients and their families. You can read about my training here.
Please make a donation to support my participation in Team In Training and help advance the Society's mission.
This year I will be running in memory of my friend Kathleen Drohan's mother, Judy. I hope you'll take the time to read about Judy and to join in supporting the battle against blood cancers. Here is an essay by Kathleen:
My mother, Judy Johanson, died on August 8, 2007, at age 70, after living with multiple myeloma for nearly a decade. She was a loving, giving woman who lived for her family.
My mother loved to travel, to be outdoors, and to go to movies or read a good book. She loved going to airports and watching people reunite with their loved ones (sometimes you had to drag her out of there, if she'd spied someone waiting, but hadn't witnessed the reunion). Besides spicy food and getting her hair wet, there actually wasn't much that she didn't like. She instilled in my sister and me a love of life and a neurosis about being late.
Unless something went terribly wrong, she never missed a family event. My cousins Janii and her husband Laurence, Steven and his wife Anna, and Jon and his wife Gail and their children, Hayden, Nelle, Forrest, Jesse, Peter, Noli, and Kristian, kept her busy with school plays and graduations, but she loved every second of it and each of them wholeheartedly.
My mother's sister Nancy and her dearest friend Sally kept her both grounded and entertained. She loved spending time with both of them (although much of the time, whatever they did together were tales she wouldn't share with her daughters).
She loved meeting and holding babies. Her own granddaughters Talia and Ava were her life's greatest joys.
We all miss her every day.
My sister, Karen Drohan, and I are so honored that Marie is choosing to honor my mother with her run this year. We hope you'll support her training.
Kathleen Drohan