2009 - LIVESTRONG Challenge - Seattle

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Noreen M. Darragh 1931-2009

As some of you know, my mother lost her battle with lung cancer in January.

In June, I will be riding in the 100 mile Livestrong Bicycle Challenge in Seattle to help raise funds to fight cancer along with mom in my own way. Please join us in this fight by sponsoring my ride and making a donation to the Lance Armstrong Foundation.

The Lance Armstrong Foundation unites people to fight cancer, believing that unity is strength, knowledge is power, and attitude is everything.

Through the funds and awareness that we raise, we can inspire and empower individuals, and we can make life better for the millions of people across the globe fighting cancer today.

Since I will be riding this century in mom’s honor, and with her tagging along in spirit, I’d like to tell you a little about her.

Mom had a long history of fighting cancer. As a child her mother was taken from her by ovarian cancer. When I was a child, her father was taken from us by cancer that had metastasized throughout his body.

Mom fought with cancer in more personal ways as well; removing spots of melanoma, enduring a mastectomy in the fight against breast cancer, and finally succumbing to lung cancer.

Mom was a fighter. She grew up during the (last) depression, was a hard nosed organized labor leader always championing the underdog, and was Irish to the core.

She fought the lung cancer hard. Through repeated chemo sessions, she never once complained to any of us. She tried to maintain her normal high energy lifestyle in spite of the insidious effects of the chemo and the cancer.

In the background, there was always an unspoken goal – she wanted to make sure that she got in at least a few more days of skiing this winter.

You see, mom was an avid skier for half a century. It was the activity that held the family together and she lived for it. It breaks my heart that she never got her final day on the hill.

In January, mom lost her fight with cancer and let go of the pain she worked so hard to hide from us. In passing, she took with her a season’s pass and her ancient shiny silver ski poles.

I miss you, mom. I’m riding this century challenge for you.

Please help me to raise funds to end this insidious disease for all of us, in the memory of my mother, Noreen M. Darragh, or to honor someone you know who has fought this disease.

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