About 12 years ago, I lost my friend Jamie Schou to cancer. Before he passed away, Jamie helped create the Send It Foundation with a pretty incredible idea: give people fighting cancer the chance to get outside, be active, have some fun, and remember that life is worth fighting for!
Jamie is gone, but his spirit is very much alive through Send It, and his three amazing sisters continued what he started and turned it into something really special. I love the Schou family, and I’m incredibly proud to support something that carries Jamie’s legacy forward.
Cancer has also taken far too many friends and family members from my life, so this one is even more personal.
My Sendtember challenge is appropriately called Midlife Swim Crisis. My goal is to raise $2,000, and I have promised to swim one lap for every dollar donated.
Unfortunately, when I made that promise, I apparently forgot that swimming a “lap” can mean there AND back. I probably should have said “length.” Or “yard.” Or maybe just promised to take a nice walk.
Too late now.
So please donate, make me suffer, support an incredible organization, honor Jamie, and help me send one very loud and very wet message:
F*CK CANCER.
$2,000 = 2,000 “laps" = One questionable middle-aged decision.
Let’s Send It.
Thank you for supporting my challenge and the mission of the Send It Foundation!