Why I support St. Jude:
Thank you for visiting my St. Jude Runs fundraising page!
St. Jude Runs is more than a run — I’m going the distance to support the mission of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital: Finding cures. Saving children.®
This is my first year participating in a St. Jude Runs event, and I am excited to join the Kewanee to Peoria team! I will be running for all the children of St. Jude, but I’ll be holding one particular patient and his family close to my heart throughout my training and on actual run day. Dylan is a teenage boy who is battling Rhabdomyosarcoma. While I’ve never personally met Dylan, I dedicate this run to him and his family as his grandma Cookie helped get me through my hospitalizations when I was a child having surgery at OSF St. Francis in Peoria.
Every dollar makes an impact, and I need your help to reach my goal! Can I count on your donation to help Dylan and all the kids of St. Jude?
Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20 percent to more than 80 percent since it opened 60 years ago— but there is still work to be done.
St. Jude won't stop until no child dies from cancer, and neither will I. Will you support me by making a donation today? Let’s cross the finish line together!