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Help us raise vital funds for
ALK+ lung cancer research!

10/20/2024

What a great turnout for yesterday’s meat raffle! A huge thank you to and for so generously donating the proceeds of the day to fundraising mission for a third year, and to Kim for running this event! Every dollar we raise goes directly to the organization that is dedicated to improving life expectancy and quality of life for ALK+ cancer patients. With your support we are pushing the boundaries of this disease and giving HOPE to many. We can’t thank this community enough for continuously showing up for us!! You’re the best!!

10/15/2024

Come join us this Saturday, October 19 @ 1pm for a Dona Ana meat raffle at Novatos Bar & Grille in Norfolk!
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Did you know that throughout the spring and fall the owners of Dona Ana and Novatos host these meat raffles every month and donate all the proceeds to a local person, family or charity in need?? How amazing is that?!! We are SO incredibly grateful to have been chosen as the recipient for our third year in a row!! There will be three boxes of meat and other yummy items raffled off on the hour, plus a 50/50 raffle, so come by for a bite to eat or a libation with friends and try your luck while supporting ALK+ cancer research!!!

Special thanks to Kim McGill Galvin for kindly organizing this wonderful event for us. We appreciate you so much! 💕

Thank you all for showing up to our events, we love seeing you! Let’s keep kicking cancer’s butt together!!

09/10/2024

This past week marked 5 years for our family living with the unknowns of Stage IV lung cancer. We are all very grateful to this community for your support, kindness and help in furthering research for this disease. You have all shown up for us in so many beautiful ways and we can’t thank you enough. 🙏🏻

08/19/2024

We are still riding high (and feeling very limber) after our awesome YOGA FOR ALK+ class yesterday!! What a crew of over 30 people who turned a last minute indoor class into such a fun event!! Our amazing instructor Lisa Howard from challenged us along with the limited space, but we made it through with lots of laughs and raised some funds for the organization in the meantime!

Thanks again to Lasses Jenny 💗 Kerry 💗 Jackie 💗 and Betsy for all your hard work and creative fundraising ideas. We can’t wait to share the details of our next one with all of you soon!

Namaste! 🙏🏻

08/18/2024

Wow!! A little rain is not going to stop these ALK warriors!! 💪🏻

Thank you to everyone who showed up and/or donated to the YOGA FOR ALK+ event today!! Our outside yoga class abruptly became an inside class when the “light” rain didn’t subside, and you all came anyway and joined us for an awesome class with rockstar instructor Lisa Howard!! 🧘🏽‍♀️ Between yoga and fantastic raffles including a Lulu Lemon package from and a month’s membership from Lisa H and UPY we raised around $1050 towards our 2024 fundraising goal!! We are immensely grateful to all of you for your generosity and for constantly showing up for !!! 🥰

With your help we are contributing to amazing developments in ALK+ lung cancer research, giving people like Lisa S and her family hope for tomorrow. We love you guys!! What a community!! 💗💕💗 What a difference we’re all making together!!! 🥹😍

08/10/2024

Sign up here for a fun outdoor yoga class next Sunday 8/18 at 10am in Norfolk! The all-levels class will be taught by one of Universal Power Yoga’s favorite instructors, Lisa Howard and an awesome Lulu Lemon package will be raffled off too! Copy this link into your browser ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/36uxwy5f OR click on the link in our bio 🧘🏼🧘🏽‍♀️🧘🏾‍♂️

Namaste!

08/08/2024

Lads and Lasses! We are so pumped to pass along amazing news from July’s ALK+ Summit!!

You may recall that all our fundraising here goes to ALK Positive, Inc. This organization started with a tiny Facebook support group for patients and caregivers in 2017, and from there the ALK Positive organization was born to advance research, educate patients and ultimately improve our life expectancy.

The organization has accrued quite an extraordinary Medical Committee comprised of mostly patients and their family members who come from science and medical backgrounds. This Committee brings a great depth of knowledge as well as deciding how all our fundraising dollars are spent.

Emily Venanzi, a Medical Committee member, ALK+ advocate, fellow patient and Bostonian!, pictured with Lisa, Jackie and Betsy, presented the exciting news that ALK Positive, Inc. is currently funding SIX research grants!! Yes! SIX!

Learning about these research projects gives us SO MUCH HOPE for a future for Lisa, Emily and other ALK patients!! One research project, for example, is the development of a vaccine that can turn on the immune system’s response to cells with the ALK mutation. This vaccine is currently in the first phase of clinical trials! Woot woot!! 👊🏻

THANK YOU to everyone here for supporting Lisa’s Lads & Lasses’ fundraising efforts for this rare, life threatening jerk of a disease 😆. You are truly making a difference!! We are so grateful to this awesome community! 💗

07/22/2024

Hi 👋🏻 it’s Lisa posting today. This past weekend attending the ALK+ Summit in Nashville was amazing. I’ll share more about what we learned and the exciting advancements happening in the world of lung cancer soon, but first and foremost I want to tell you that in that conference of 350 people, I felt like the luckiest person alive. More than once I was struck by how incredible my support system is - from my husband Mark and our kids Peter, Hannah and Seanie to all of YOU in the Lisa’s Lads and Lasses community 🥰. The kindness my family and I have been shown these last few years has blown me away.

Betsy and Jackie giving up a summer weekend to come to Nashville and deep dive into things like nuclear protein, mRNA, mutations, tyrosine kinase inhibitors, next generation sequencing, biomarkers, blood brain barrier, MET, SHP2, PDL1, EML4, mechanisms of resistance and so on and so on……😳🤯🤪…..while also representing Lisa’s Lads & Lasses and sharing our mission AND making friends with other ALK+ patients and their families….that is true friendship and I am so grateful for their love and dedication to me!!!

I know so many more of you would have dropped whatever you had and done the same thing had I asked, and I am truly and deeply grateful just to know you care that much too. My heart is so full thinking about all of you. 💗

I wouldn’t wish living with this stupid, horrible disease and a ticking clock on anyone, but through it all you have shown me how vital it is to show up for and take care of each other in this life. It’s truly all that matters. I appreciate every one of you in this community and thank you for supporting me and helping the ALK+ world find answers that are desperately needed. You are making a difference to me and to others with this disease. To each of you I send love, and I hope your day and week is filled with peace, laughter and good health! 😘💗😍💕☀️

07/20/2024

Day 1 of the ALK+ Summit in Nashville! So happy to be here to learn more about the latest news in treatments and what’s on the horizon to help ALK patients live longer and with a better quality of life! Thank you to all our Lads and Lasses for helping us raise vital research funding!! We are grateful to all of you! 💕

07/18/2024

Join us!!

07/17/2024

Come join us for an outside all-levels yoga class benefitting ALK+ lung cancer research!

☀️WHAT: 1 hour poolside yoga class with amazing Universal Power Yoga instuctor Lisa Howard!

☀️WHEN: Sunday, August 18, 2024 at 10am (check in at 9:45am)

☀️WHERE: Norfolk, MA

☀️COST: $30

☀️SIGN UP and get all the details by visiting the link in comments

Proceeds from this event benefit ALK Positive, Inc., a patient driven organization dedicated to improving the life expectancy and quality of life for ALK+ patients worldwide.

We hope to see you at this fun event!! Thank you for your support!! 💗

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