Father's Day Fund - The Perfect Gift!

Now that it’s June, I’m sure that you are all wondering what the heck to give your father for Father’s Day. Fortunately, I have the perfect answer to your troubles. I am thrilled to announce that my friends at the Pacific Merchant Shipping Association have done it again. They are moving forward with the Father's Day Fund for the second year in a row. Thanks to your support last year, the Father’s Day Fund is now a well established charitable effort.

As you may recall from last year, it was around this time they were talking about how many people they knew who were either cancer patients or survivors and came up with a brilliant idea. They would encourage people to give the gift of a cure for cancer for Father’s Day, rather than another tie or other useless gift.

So, they created this incredible website http://www.fathersdayfund.org/. They’ve updated the website from last year – giving is just as simple, but there are more card designs to choose from and now you can download them yourself. They’ve also linked in commercial e-card services for people to use if they’d like.

They hope to make 2009 even more successful than 2008. As you may recall, they got great TV coverage on ABC News which featured my family (you can click on the link on the upper left hand side of my blog to view the clip).

Just to remind you, they do not handle the money themselves, this site simply directs you to the cancer research institutions (my favorite being Stanford, of course). However, they would love for you to let them know if you participated, so that they can determine the success of their efforts.

Please spread the word to everyone you know - friends, colleagues and all your social networks. Forward the website information and visit them online yourself over the course of the next three weeks.

Oh - and one other piece of news - I went for blood work and my CT scan today at Stanford. Amazingly, they got back my results this afternoon and I was informed that my blood work was normal and that the CT scan showed "no evidence of disease." Hallelujah.