3rd Annual Run/Walk for Pulmonary Fibrosis
- Save the Date, Saturday, May 22, 2010
Dear Friends:
I'd like to invite you to join me for the “Third Annual” NYC 5K Run-Walk to benefit Coalition for Pulmonary Fibrosis (CPF).
This year’s event will kick-off on Saturday, May 22, 2010, at 10 a.m. in NYC’s Central Park. Save the date, and stay tuned for details about the event and donation options.
As many of you know, Pulmonary Fibrosis is a fatal lung disease that takes the lives of approximately 40,000 Americans each year – the same number as breast cancer – and kills an estimated two-thirds of patients within five years of diagnosis. PF can strike anyone. There is no cure, no FDA approved treatment and the only solution is a lung transplant.
Our run/walk was first started as a grass roots effort to raise awareness of PF. We initially gathered as a group of 25 in honor of my father, Tom Hales who suffered from Pulmonary Fibrosis and was fortunate enough to receive a life saving double-lung transplant in 2007. He is living a full life thanks to this miracle and will be participating in our event once again this year.
As our event has exceeded 100 participants, we are honoring all who are affected by PF: those whose lives have been taken by the disease, family members and advocates of PF patients, individuals awaiting lung transplants and others celebrating their recent transplants. Our gathering allows us to come together with the common goal of finding support in each other and helping fight this dreadful disease together.
CPF continues to play a critical role as both a friend and advocate for patients and families fighting PF, so no one has to navigate this diagnosis alone. CPF is here to help patients and families in their time of great need and is working on multiple fronts to make things better for future PF patients as it continues to promote awareness, provide education and raise research funds to find a cure.
This run/walk is a gift to all the patients alive now who would continue living if a treatment were discovered. Please help us make a difference for them.
Please join us on May 22nd as we set out to further increase awareness and understanding of Pulmonary Fibrosis, or please consider making a contribution to the CPF in the name of our event by clicking below:
http://www.firstgiving.com/terencehales
Sincerely,
Terence Hales
Terence F. Hales
408 West 57th Street, 9D
New York, NY10019
Tel: 212-399-9312
Cel: 917-742-8586
tfhales@aol.com