My turn... The March of Dimes & Team Sadie 2011. (please read)

BDx13 - 4-26-2011 at 01:19 AM

As many of you know, my daughter was born extremely premature - she only weighed a pound and a half when she was born at 25 weeks (barely half way through the natural gestational period).

Her first three months were spent in the Columbia Presbyterian NICU literally fighting for her life. In the years since, she′s had hundreds of doctors′ visits and countless hours of therapy.

But if you saw her today - on her seventh birthday - you'd never know it. She′s healthy, she′s happy, she′s brave and she′s a tremendous inspiration. She′s also extremely lucky.

My family has been supporting the March of Dimes and their mission of preventing premature birth and infant mortality since 2005. In that time, our friends and family have raised over $20,000 - nearly $1,500 of which has come from the Thorp & SGR family.

We will be walking again this weekend and our goal for 2011 is to raise $1500. If you are at all capable of contributing, we′d love to have your support. Thank you.

http://marchforbabies.org/teamsadie
http://marchforbabies.org/teamsadie
http://marchforbabies.org/teamsadie

NICU, 2004. Rock climbing & Philly Zoo, 2010

Discipline - 4-26-2011 at 01:19 PM

I'll be pitching in next week.

XnMeX - 4-26-2011 at 02:02 PM

I just sent an email to my manager to see if I can forward to the people in my company.

Happy Birthday Sadie! :smilegrin:

BDx13 - 4-26-2011 at 02:08 PM

thanks, discipline.

you,too, monty. i just forwarded you an email we send out in case your manager says it's OK.

thanks to everyone that's already contributed. we really appreciate it.

BDx13 - 4-26-2011 at 02:43 PM

damn... our official mass email went out less than an hour ago and we're already half way to our goal. might have to bump it a little higher...and it wouldn't be the first time!

XHonusWagnerX - 4-26-2011 at 03:52 PM

thats awesome BD! Does all your money have to be raised in 4 days?

clevohardcore - 4-26-2011 at 03:54 PM

I Will pitch in tonight. Also, can we link this with our facebook?

BDx13 - 4-26-2011 at 04:06 PM

honus, we'll be fundraising this week leading up to the walk and for one week following. over the years we've found it best not to drag it out.

not sure what exactly you mean, clevo. if you wanted to post a status update to your FB account and include our page, you would go to facebook, click on 'link,' add this URL: http://marchforbabies.org/teamsadie , then write whatever you want before posting.

Or you can 'like' our march of dimes page directly. just go to our page and click on the like button under our main photo. http://marchforbabies.org/teamsadie

ShawnRefuse - 4-26-2011 at 06:22 PM

can I do it Friday?

MattyA - 4-26-2011 at 07:26 PM

Done!

BDx13 - 4-27-2011 at 12:57 AM

shawn, yes, donating any time within the next two weeks is fine and appreciated.

thanks, matty!

BDx13 - 4-27-2011 at 11:00 AM

Already 85% of the way to our goal!
Think we'll hit it within 24 hours?

We normally raise between $3,000 and $5,000 every year, but went for a more modest goal this year in light of the current economy. Either our concerns were unfounded or we hang with some high rollin' people!

Colin - 4-28-2011 at 02:43 PM

good luck...I'll gladly donate in the next few days

Discipline - 4-29-2011 at 12:45 PM

Donation sent!

ShawnRefuse - 4-29-2011 at 01:13 PM

DONE :thumbup:

Vanilla Gorilla - 4-29-2011 at 01:44 PM

sent

BDx13 - 4-29-2011 at 02:25 PM

Big thanks to everyone here who has contributed so far - you've been very generous!

Time to bump the goal up a bit!

ChadBeantown - 4-29-2011 at 03:03 PM

DONE!!

BDx13 - 4-30-2011 at 02:00 PM

Just back from the walk. Five miles takes a lot outta ya when you only do it once a year. I'm impressed she made it the whole way.

Thanks again to everyone that has contributed to Team Sadie and sent messages of support. For those that have asked, NO, IT IS NOT TOO LATE TO GIVE! We fundraise for one week before and one week after the event, so I'll probably be bumpin this thread until Sun, May 8 or so.

http://marchforbabies.org/teamsadie
http://marchforbabies.org/teamsadie
http://marchforbabies.org/teamsadie

MattyA - 4-30-2011 at 07:21 PM

Good job BD, glad I could help out.

ShawnRefuse - 5-1-2011 at 09:09 AM

Hope you raise lots.

Colin - 5-4-2011 at 03:28 PM

would've liked to give more, unfortunately my paycheck is 4 days overdue, but I'll donate more if I get it in the next few days

BDx13 - 5-4-2011 at 05:57 PM

Thanks, Colin. As I've said before, we happily take every dollar we can, so we appreciate whatever you can afford.

We cleared our original goal on walk day, so we've set a new and final goal of $2,500 by the end of this Sunday, which is also Mother's Day.

http://marchforbabies.org/teamsadie

Spoiler - 5-4-2011 at 07:42 PM

Man,she has really grown. It doesn't seem like that long ago that you posted the pics of her when she was first born. It's awesome that Sadie is walking the walk with you now.Is this her first year,or has she done the walk before? Five miles would do me in ha ha. Good for y'all.
I just made a donation.

BDx13 - 5-4-2011 at 11:19 PM

yeah, she just turned 7. kinda crazy.

she's been with us for the walk every year, but caught a stroller ride the first several years and just started walking the last two. although, she gets the occasional piggyback ride.