Relay for Life of Second Life

On behalf of the Teams, Team Captains, Mentors, and Planning Committee, of Relay For Life of Second Life 2008, I extend a heartfelt and soul shaking thank you to the residents of Second Life for your support and participation.

Thank you so very much for making our cause your cause. Thank you for reaching out to us with arms of support and friendship. Thank you for your understanding and sense of humor as we bumped our way down the fundraising path. Thank youfor your tolerance of our growing pains.

Thanks to you,Relay For Life of Second Life 2008, has ended an outstanding season. You were the punch in our swing at cancer so - please join us in our shout of joy – TAKE THAT CANCER!

See you next year, July 18 and 19; we’ll be looking for you,

Fayandria Foley-McDunnough
event chair
Relay For Life of Second Life 2008

SLCN.TV Telethon

This year features the exciting debut of the SLCN.TV RFL Telethon that will broadcast the relay event live out to the 40,000 TV sets inworld that feature SLCN.TV channels as well as to audiences on the web.

On 19 July 2008 SLCN.TV will be encouraging viewers to donate to the Relay For Life of Second Life during the 2008 virtual Relay.

Starting at 10:00AM SLT SLCN will broadcast events directly from the all-day event happenings plus several special treats from popular TV personalities.

All the excitement is to raise awareness and donations that benefit the American Cancer Society and their work to find a cure.

Go to the live Telethon now Chat Bridge

The 12 hour telethon will feature the following events:-

Telethon Schedule

10am Opening Ceremony
HOST: Saffia Widdershins

11am Survivors Lap
HOST: Saffia Widdershins

12pm Parade of Teams
HOST: Callie Cline

1pm Sail On - Sail for Life
HOST: MarkTwain White

2pm Tiny Snail Races
HOST: Wiz Nordberg & crew

3pm Live Music
HOST: Angie Mornington & Paisley Beebe

4pm Furries, Fairies, Dragons, and Mythical race
HOST: Yxes Delacroix

5pm SLASCAR Celebrity Kart Race
HOST: Suku Ming

7pm Hereos Tour
HOST: Ducky and Crap Mariner

8pm Bald is Beautiful
HOST: Pooky Amsterdam

9pm Luminaria Ceremony
HOST: Paisley Beebe

Wanting to communicate in SL without being in SL?

USE: Chat Bridge

Thanks to Chase & Tria!

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Below is listed the amount that participating teams on the convio site have had donated as of July 17, 8:30 PM SLT.  The first number is the  convio amount in lindens and the second number is a snapshot of the team’s total  donations, including the convio donations, at the time stated above.  Please note that the addition of the convio donations to the kiosk amounts may have caused a change in the overall standings.  You will need to take this number and verify where it fits into the side-bar listings. We are working on achieving the ability to have the kiosk totals reflect the convio totals and automatically change the standing but for now this is the best we can offer.  We apologize for any confusion.

 

Fay and Val  

 

MC Estates L$280,900 off world / full total L$485,605

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Relay Rockers L$139,125 / L$2,153,010

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Gianfar Kingdom L$124,550 / L$339,061

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Team Elizabeth Blackwell L$115,275 / L$214,776

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RFL of SL General Donations L$99,110 / L$1,075,978

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BBA All-Stars L$79,500 / L$2,463,998

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Passionate Redheads L$72,875 / L$1,988,351

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Relay Raiders L$59,230 / L$9,317,400

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Eternal Beacon L$46,375 / L$1,127,961

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Team Unity L$31,800 / L$ 224,364

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Adam ondi Ahman and Lyonesse L$27,825 / L$115,705

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RadioRadio L$27,825 / L$600,187

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HEART n SOUL RELAYERS L$26,500 / L$420,291

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Frozen Peas L$13,250 / L$15,250

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BBA Hotshots L$6,625 / L$447,841

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Judy’s Angels L$6,625 / L$330,787

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MASH L$6,625 / L$122,972

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Spinners 4 Life L$1,325 / L$247,344

I’m a bit of a private person but I will tell you a bit about my reasoning for being so vocal about RFL. I’m a cancer survivor! I was first diagnosed with breast cancer in August of 2004. I went thru chemo and radiation . . . thinking it was all over and done with. But, this wasn’t to be. I was diagnosed a second time in July of 2007. I finished my chemo in late March. I’m finishing up with my radiation now and I fully intend on being around to spoil my grandbabies SOMEDAY. My son is 21 and a senior in college. I will be here to see those grandkids. I know that. I feel it in my heart.

I think it is amazing at what we can do when we pull together and work towards the goal. SL RFL last year was one of the most touching things I’ve ever experienced. I’ve been involved with RFL for many years and I was just as touched at the Survivors Lap in SL as I was my first survivors lap in so called real world. I sat in front of my computer on a beautiful summer day. . . . I sat there all day . . . couldn’t tear myself away from the computer screen. Everyone came together for the same cause. This is a beautiful thing!

Cancer is a horrible disease but it doesn’t have to be a death sentence. Don’t look at me like I’m sick or a patient . . . just look at me. . . . I’m a mom. . . . I’m a daughter . . . a sister . . . a wife . . . a friend. I am you.

Cancer can happen to anyone. Let’s just find a cure. Please join me at Relay for Life and be generous. Help us Remember, Celebrate and Fight Back against Cancer!

Until there’s a Cure,
Wilma Delgado

Oh, I forgot this part . . . grins. I walked my first Survivors Lap with my 75 year old mother. She is a breast cancer survivor of 40 years! I walked in our honor and in memory of my older sister that lost her fight to ovarian cancer at the very young age of 46.

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If you are interested in submitting a blog post for RFLofSL.org (Our current theme is Heroes!) please send your entries to Madison Donnelly (for the Hero posts) or David Jacobs (for any other type). This is open to all who have experience with Relay (be it going to your very first event, or coming up to your third year on the committee), we WANT to hear about it!

Thanks,
Otenth Paderborn

Twenty-five years ago I was a young mother with a one-year-old son sitting in a doctors office when I heard those words “you have cancer” - a recurrence of the thyroid cancer I’d had in my teens.

A few days later a colleague came back from a visit to a local research hospital and told me that the walls were covered with posters for a fund-raising event. His words gave me hope. The posters read “40% of cancers are curable… now we need to cure the other 60%”.

He hugged me, and told me he was sure I was in that first 40% …

… and, I was.

Two and half decades on, my thyroid cancer is well under control, although I still need medication and I will need regular checkups for the rest of my life. And, according to ACS sources, more than half of the people who are diagnosed with cancer today will_die_of _something_else.

So we’ve made progress. But not nearly enough.

We still have a long way to go before we can say that *no-one* will die of cancer. And we have an even longer way to go before we can prevent it entirely.

In the meantime we still need to support those who, after hearing those words “you have cancer”, have to go through often distressing, disfiguring, and debilitating treatment, and the anxiety of waiting to learn whether the treatment has worked, punctuated by stress, uncertainty, depression and loss of control.

And that’s why I Relay. I relay to raise money for cancer research and to help find a cure. I relay to help raise awareness so that others are encouraged to live in a way that reduces their chance of cancer or at least to detect it early on. But above all I relay to support my fellow survivors who are walking this journey and especially those who are going through treatment right now. I relay because I care.

If YOU are a survivor, or a caregiver, join us on the opening lap of Relay For Life on July 19. The web page for registration is : http://tinyurl.com/5t64bh

IF that fails to work (which it does if your browser security doesn’t allow redirection), this is the “long” web address:
http://www.formlogix.com/Manager/UserForm56375.aspx?Param=VXNlcklkPTU2Mzc1LkZvcm1JZD0x

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If your interested in submitting a blog type post for RFLofSL.org (Our current theme is Heroes!) please send your entries to Madison Donnelly (For the Hero posts) or David Jacobs (For any other type). This is open to all who have experience with Relay (be it going to your very first event, or coming upto your third year on the committee), we WANT to hear about it!

Thanks,
Dave.
“Fight Back … Relay For Life”

My Reason to Relay is so that children all over the world do not have to go through the pain, sorrow and unbearable loneliness of losing their mother or father to the awful disease that cancer is. And so that parents do not have to suffer along with their children who have cancer, then live with the unspeakable grief of losing their child to cancer. To the memory of my mother who died from cancer and left a grieving, lonely and angry daughter with a giant hatred for cancer. . . . I pledge to Relay For Life!!

Belle Loll

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If you are interested in submitting a blog post for RFLofSL.org (Our current theme is Heroes!) please send your entries to Madison Donnelly (for the Hero posts) or David Jacobs (for any other type). This is open to all who have experience with Relay (be it going to your very first event, or coming up to your third year on the committee), we WANT to hear about it!

Thanks,

Otenth Paderborn

by Catt Gable

Don’t get me wrong . . .
I feel privileged to serve,
To stand or sit and wait for someone to need me
at the ACS Island Information Area.
Ready to answer questions and offer directions,
wearing a warm smile and
my Greeters’ blouse with the RFL logo

But I live . . . no . . . I Relay for the day
When no one will land, look around, see me
and say, “Hi. I just found out I have cancer,
and I don’t know where to go.”

I weep for the day someone isn’t standing before me
shaking with tears in real life and with gestures
because they are too young . . .
How could this be happening to them.

To not have a Survivor or Caregiver come to my aid
and offer to take some soul under their wing,
to let them know they are not alone
and here they have found haven.
That’s what I want.

Because when all that ceases,
it means we have found the Cure,
that cancer has been defeated!

It is my hope, my prayer
that because of our Victory
my watch can finally end,
and I can finally say . . .

No More Relay!!

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If you are interested in submitting a blog post for RFLofSL.org (Our current theme is Heroes!) please send your entries to Madison Donnelly (for the Hero posts) or David Jacobs (for any other type). This is open to all who have experience with Relay (be it going to your very first event, or coming up to your third year on the committee), we WANT to hear about it!

Thanks,

Otenth Paderborn

Post by Nuala Maracas

Why do I relay? Easily I could say because it is “the right thing to do” or “because I want to help find a cure for cancer.” But I really wanted to know why I relayed . . . so I sat back and thought and felt and listened to the what seemed to be a silence in my head and a tug in my heart as I thought, why do I relay?

I could say that I relay for my 33 yr old cousin who died of leukemaa, for my 55 yr old cousin who died of breast cancer, for my uncle who died of cancer, for my friend’s sister who died of brain cancer last year, for my co-worker’s sister who just had her breast removed last month, or for my best friend in and out of SL who is a cancer survivor.

But in the end, if the truth be told . . . of course I relay for all those people and reasons . . . BUT. . . I also relay because I don’t want to die from cancer . . . I relay for ME.

If the time ever came that I had to hear those words, “You have cancer,” I don’t want to feel the darkness, the fear, the sorrow, and the unimaginable feelings that some who has heard those words has felt. I want to know that it is okay . . . it will all be fine . . . there is a cure and I will live a long healthy life.

Is that selfish? Is that wrong to say that I relay for ME, even if I don’t have cancer? I don’t think it is. I am fighting long and hard to help win the battle, be it thru raising awareness of Cancer or thru raising money to help fund research, projects, and community support. I give of myself physically, emotionally and financially to help find a cure and support people. I am there whenever someone says ” I need you.”

The overall end result is the same . . . the goal is the same . . . whether it is for you or for me or for anyone touched in any way by Cancer . . . To Have Hope . . . To Find A Cure.

I chose to FIGHT BACK for Me. But as the song goes, ” I run for YOU and ME my friend . . . I run for life!”

Nuala Maracas
Area Entertainment Chair
RFL of SL 2008

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If you are interested in submitting a blog post for RFLofSL.org (Our current theme is Heroes!) please send your entries to Madison Donnelly (for the Hero posts) or David Jacobs (for any other type). This is open to all who have experience with Relay (be it going to your very first event, or coming up to your third year on the committee), we WANT to hear about it!

Thanks,

Otenth Paderborn

Relaying is made up of so many different facets but one is awareness.
A woman came to ACS Island and found me at my desk. She was looking for information. She told me about a lump she had found, she said she was nervous, and also embarrassed and just wanted some information. I said “go to the doctor”. Seemed simple enough to me but she stalled around so I asked “want to talk to doctor or nurse?” She instantly said “OH! YES! PLEASE!” Now I know that a doctor or nurse walks a thin line with giving advice but I also know they know, better than I, what that line is and this visitor needed more, was looking for more than my answer. So, I asked on our Volunteers’ chat group if a nurse was available and like an answer to the visitor’s prayer and mine, Mercedes Lassard answered the call. I don’t know how the conversation went from there as I left, my part was over but Mercedes told me later that the woman was deathly afraid of needles. They had talked, Mercedes answered a few questions; asked a few questions but, the long and short of it was that Mercedes was able to say what was needed to get this woman to push pass her fears and promised to go to the doctor.
Does she have cancer? Was her life saved?
Who knows, may never know, but you can bet that Mercedes will be tracking her down to just ask – how did it go? To do all she can to support her and offer her some accountability so she has some incentive go to that doctor appointment.
NOW THAT IS ONE AWESOME WAY TO RELAYING!
Fay

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If your interested in submitting a blog type post for RFLofSL.org (Our current theme is Heroes!) please send your entries to Madison Donnelly (For the Hero posts) or David Jacobs (For any other type). This is open to all who have experience with Relay (be it going to your very first event, or coming upto your third year on the committee), we WANT to hear about it!

Thanks,
Dave.
“Fight Back … Relay For Life”