Nicole Giuliani's TNT Fundraising Page!
Back to run more, raise more money and save more lives!
Hello! Welcome to my Team In Training home page.
Many of you may be feeling a small sense of deja vu, since this page is eerily similar to the one I made last season, when I raised money for and ran the Napa Marathon! Although the weather was awful during the race (even by Seattle standards), I had such a wonderful time training and raised so much money for blood cancer research and patient care that I'm back for more! This would not have been possible without the amazingly generous donations from you, so thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!!!!!
This season I have assumed more of a leadership role with TNT, and am training as a mentor for both the Maui Half Marathon (woo Hawaii!) and the Nike Women's Full Marathon in SF. As a mentor, I am responsible for helping 12 new participants successfully raise money, train for and finish their goal events, just like my mentor Jocelyn helped me last season. It's really fun, and is an even more satisfying way to contribute to fighting blood cancers.
Those of you who donated last season heard about my mom, who was diagnosed with stage 4 mantle-cell lymphoma about a week after I moved down to Palo Alto in August to begin graduate school. Since then, she had 6 rounds of aggressive chemotherapy, received over 100 units of blood, swallowed countless pills, and underwent a stem-cell transplant in January, which involved massive radiation and even more chemo, as well as a 3 week hospital stay. For someone so independent, my mom endured her treatments with a grace, humor and strength so amazing; I can only hope that it's genetic! Since January, she gotten stronger, grown her hair back and resumed living her life... and just last week she was officially deemed "in remission"! While this is a HUGE cause for celebration, we still have 5 years to wait before we can begin to breathe easier, since the chance of recurrence dramatically drops after 5 cancer-free years. However, before LLS-funded research helped develop the her life-saving treatments, the survival rate for mantle cell lymphoma was just FIVE percent. This number has increased dramatically in the last couple of years, but it still has a long way to go.
While my mom was recovering, the mom of a close friend of mine from college was diagnosed with acute mylogenous leukemia (AML). For those of you who know, AML is a particularly nasty form of leukemia, and the sub-type she had made it even nastier. She fought valiantly, but succumbed to the cancer 2 months later. This loss has only solidified my determination to do as much as I can to make sure that in the near future, no one else has to watch someone they love suffer so. And, while I will always train in honor of my mom, this season I dedicate my training and fundraising to my friend Julia, and the memory of her mom, Sandra Gottlieb.
Please help me to put an end to blood cancers by making a donation to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. This money goes directly towards research, patient care... and more fundraising! I can provide stamped envelopes if online donation worries you at all, just email me at giuliani@stanford.edu.
I hope you'll visit this web site often to watch the progress bar grow. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for all of your love and support, past, present and future.
