"I Skipped Lunch for Erin"

September 8, 2004

No news yet (noon). When I get out of class at 1:30, I am going to send Erin's doctor an e-mail announcing that I am free to accept phone calls. Maybe that will work ;-).

What follows is a request for your support again this year for Lunch for Life. I am posting this on behalf of the Children's Neuroblastoma Cancer Foundation (If you do feel moved to donate, send me an e-mail with the subject line: "I Skipped Lunch for Erin", so that I can thank you. If you don't that's okay, too.):

After Erin had chemo, she had no appetite. After reading this, maybe you won't either...

Because we are asking you to skip lunch today or tomorrow, and donate the money you would have spent on lunch to fund curative research for solid tumor cancers in children.

We're the Children's Neuroblastoma Cancer Foundation. And through the "Lunch for Life" research funding campaign, we've already raised over $150,000.

But we want $10 million. Yes, our goal is aggressive. But so is neuroblastoma. Only about 2 out of 10 kids that get this form of pediatric cancer will survive. What's more, it's the most common cancer in infancy. (The incidence rate is almost double that of leukemia).

To help us fund a cure, donate your lunch money (for most people that's about $5) to this research fund and---this is the important part---ask 5 friends to do the same. Tell them to ask 5 friends. Then pass it on. You get the idea. This is the only way we will succeed.

To start your own chain of giving, send $5 (or for that matter, any other amount) to: CNCF, PO Box 6635, Bloomingdale, IL 60108. Or call 1-866-671-2623. You can also make a credit card donation online at our secure web site: http://www.lunchforlife.org CNCF is a 501 (c)(3) public charity. Your donations are tax-deductible to the full extent of the law. ID #36-4370725.