A message from Don Boothby

[Narayan Krishnamoorthy]

Hello all,

A lot of you guys know Donald Boothby, you've ridden with him undoubtedly on some cold rainy night. Most of you know he has cancer, what a brutal battle it has been.

The first time Donald was in the oncology ward, last september, he was a fit athlete. He had been riding his bike every day (with a handful of days off) for at least the last 4 years. He really chafed at the fact that his daily exercise regime was restricted to walking laps pushing an IV cart for those three 5 day chemo sessions . He asked for an exercise bike, and they brought him an old broken  thing; the saddle didn't stay up, there was only one speed... when they found out what condition it was in, they threw it away.

Anyway, Donald wanted to start a campaign to save enough money to buy the oncology ward a recumbent exercise bike, he even met with the people who run that kind of campaign while he was there. But then surgery, a 52 day hospital stay, and recurring cancer pushed that out of his consciousness, as his new focus became simply survival.

While back in the oncology ward this last week because of his issues, we could see there were other people there who were still very fit, doing the same thing he did; racing around the ward, pushing their carts. This led us to resolve, we've got to get that going. He just doesn't have much time. He really cares about this and would love to
see it happen. Can you help?

A lot of his friends on bike journal (a bicycling website and forum) were saving "Pansy Quarters" for this purpose last fall. Hopefully they kept going with that. Donald saved 170 dollars just in quarters! For those that do not know about Pansy, she's a friend of ours who fought liver cancer for about 8 years while amassing thousands of miles a year on HER bike. Donald was bitterly disappointed to not be able to follow in her footsteps, his cancer hit so much harder and faster. So, if you have Pansy Quarters, or want to save Raleighdon Quarters for that matter and make a donation to this fund, it would really honor him.

here's the website: https://community.swedish.org/donaldboothby

Thanks,

Don (via Mimi).

[Jason Dul]

Does anyone object to my forwarding this on to one of my sales manager friends from SportsArt Fitness?  I worked there for 18 months (until last week) and the company has a new medical recumbent bike which would fit the purpose of this facility perfectly.  I can see what sort of deal the Medical Markets manager can swing for one, or for another model of stationary cycle for the facility.

 

-          Jason Dul

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