Team Beezy Bee

Any parent will tell you there are few things in life worse than having a sick child.  And if a parent could, they would gladly switch places and fight the disease or illness for them.

In 2010, after a long and stressful week in the hospital trying to figure out why our daughter (then 18 months old) wouldn’t stop vomiting, a bomb was dropped on our family.  Abby was diagnosed with a 3 centimeter 4th Ventricular Anaplastic Ependymoma.  Brain Cancer.

On March 3 of this year, after three and a half years, two surgeries, and two 30-day rounds of proton beam radiation therapy, Abby was diagnosed with cancer for a third time.  At this point, we don’t know what the future holds for Abby.  During that time we’ve lived in fear of a recurrence every day and lived through the reality of cancer three times.  It’s an experience no one should have to endure, much less a child.  Cancer has truly held our family hostage since 2010, and continues to do so.

So this August, I will once again join over 5,500 cyclists from all over the world raising money to benefit the Dana Farber Cancer Institute for cancer research.  I can’t fight Abby’s cancer for her, but I can ride 192 miles and raise money for research so that fewer children, parents, and family members have to go through our family’s fight against cancer.