Another Good Cause

I met Lauren, Jill and Sarah (friends of Todd) at their fundraiser/happy hour at Big Hunt last week. As it happens, the three of them are raising money to take part in upcoming marathon(s) as part of the Leukemia and Lyphoma's Team in Training. Not a bad cause. Lauren gave me her card and a link to her website, where you can read all about her efforts and her history with Leukemia and Lymphoma.

Lauren's less than $700 away from reaching her goal of $4,000 in donations before she heads off to run in the Rock 'N Roll Marathon in San Diego on June 4th. I feel good things will happen if my Timphoma.org readership can help push her over the edge. If you have any cash left over after buying your Timphoma.org trucker caps, help Lauren and her teammates out.

Oh, and....

If you're missing some of the references on the t-shirts, you're not watching enough Yacht Rock. Check it out, it is truly life-altering. You'll never listen to Michael McDonald the same way again.

Disclaimer

Ok, I should have checked the latest rendition of the Timphoma merchandise page Mike's created, but let me just warn you all there is some PG-13 content on the site, namely a creative rendition of some mythological copulation. Fair warning.

Mike's plan to cash in on misfortune

First, here's a little eye candy from yesterday's 4th (and final, hopefully) round of chemo....



Pure misery, huh?

Mike has come through for me, and come up with a shameless method for capitalizing on my mutant cell growth. He actually came up with this weeks ago, and thus far I've failed to share it, mainly because I wasn't actually 100% certain he was serious (oh he was), but also because I thought maybe if I held out he'd get angry and therefore inspired to come up with more and more ridiculous concepts until I could deny his efforts no more. That actually worked.

So, here they are: my own line of Timphoma-inspired crap at http://www.cafepress.com/timphoma.

Mike really does deserve all the credit for these magnificent products, and I plan to order several of them. He even claims I'll see a chunk of the profits, but, well, I'm not cancelling my health plan just yet. Enjoy, I'm sure these high-quality goods will remind you all fondly of that time I had cancer. Please also feel free to post all comments, compliments, complaints, etc. below and I'll be sure Mike bears the full brunt of all of them.

Injustice!

What is keeping me so busy that I never update this site? Not a lot. General laziness really.

Had to comment on this story though. Yes, it's very sad that this woman faked cancer and conned several poor souls out of some cash. But read on -- she got $35,000 in donations!!! $35,000!!!

Now, don't get me wrong, I have used my petty wee tumors to cash in on some serious generosity. I have received loads of carepackages, gift certificates, gift cards....the people in my life are way too generous with me. But at this moment I feel like a complete amateur. I didn't even realize I could be using this disease to generate some serious cash flow, and here I am nearly cured (hopefully).

What a waste. Maybe it's not too late to set up a Paypal account.

Lymphoma is crazy sexy

Just ask Jenny. Or this guy:

"Doyle was online at the time awaiting what he thought was a nude image of a girl who had lymphoma, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said"

That is just creepy.