Long-time readers know that cancer is a touchy subject in my house. In March of 2012, my wife was diagnosed with Stage 3 Ovarian Cancer. After surgery and chemotherapy, she was given the good news that she showed no evidence of cancer. If you haven’t watched a loved one deal with chemo, I envy you. Watching someone I love suffer so much from the very thing that was trying to save her life? That was the hardest thing I’ve ever done. We are lucky. She has had clean scans ever since.
Yesterday I received an email from The Cure Starts Now. I’ll let them describe themselves: “The Cure Starts Now, which is a non-profit foundation that represents something truly different – a grassroots effort dedicated to, not just fighting one cancer, but the elimination of ALL cancers. We are on a mission to find the Homerun Cure by funding research for cancer.”
Now, as I mentioned above we hate cancer in this house. And not just the kind that affected us, but all of them. If someone asks me to donate to a cancer charity, the odds are that I’m going to do it. So I would have been happy to receive the email anyway. But in this case they were asking me to help promote a fundraising event that might interest you the reader as well. Here is a little more from the email:
Why does this matter to you? Well, we would like to ask if you’d blog about our Ultimate Bourbon Raffle being awarded at our annual Once in a Lifetime Gala and Auction. We have first and second place prizes, full of amazing bourbons, that I am sure you know all about! Below are the prizes brought to us by our friends at the Party Source.
First Prize - Double Eagle Very Rare.
Second Prize - Pappy Van Winkle collection. The winner will receive a 10, 12, 15, 20, and 23-year bottle.
Anyone who is a lover of bourbon does not want to miss out on the opportunity to win one of these amazing prizes. You and your followers can visit https://csnevents.org/Bourbon to buy raffle tickets. Only 750 tickets are being sold, so don't miss out!
Now, I’m not going to ask you to buy a raffle ticket, I know my readership skews frugal. But, I will ask you to consider it, if you are able. The world will be better off once cancer is defeated. And the more people we have looking for a cure, the quicker that will happen. Plus…who knows maybe you’ll be a lucky winner. (Unless I am…I just bought my raffle ticket)
Ordinarily this would be where I would ask you to give me money. A $3 coffee or a purchase at my Etsy store. Tonight, I’m going to ask you to instead donate that to a cancer charity of your choice. If you want to donate to The Cure Starts Now (who has a 94 out of 100 rating on Charity Navigator) you can by visiting https://donate2csn.org, but they are by no means the only cancer research charity. Do what feels right to you and maybe together we can help make the world a little better.