2024 Team Rally For SARC - Team Footsteps 4 Franklin Page
Sharon Stevens
2024 Team Rally For SARC
"Not gone, just gone ahead".
I am humbled to be one of five charity runners selected to represent the Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research (FSR) in the 2024 TCS New York City Marathon, which will be held on November 3rd.
As the holder of a coveted charity bib, my participation in running 26.2 miles takes on a deeper meaning. It allows me to join others in giving a voice to those who live each day with this rare disease. It also offers a continuation of hope through research that will enable people to live longer, in less pain, and help bring us closer to a cure.
FSR is the leading international organization dedicated to finding a cure for sarcoidosis and improving care for sarcoidosis patients through research, education, and support. Since its establishment in 2000, FSR has fostered over $6 million in sarcoidosis-specific research efforts.
Sarcoidosis impacts approximately 1.2 million people worldwide and 200,000 in the U.S. People living with sarcoidosis wake up each day and face the challenges of living with a rare disease including the symptoms and side effects like overwhelming fatigue, trouble breathing, chest pain, headaches, joint pain, skin lesions and rashes, an overall feeling of sickness, along with other physical and mental symptoms that patients experience living with sarcoidosis. Currently, there is no known cause and limited treatment options.
I will be participating in this marathon in memory of my dad who physically left us on July 27, 2011. He had been hopeful for a cure but also chose to not stop living his life, even with the disrespectful way this disease intruded into it.
I hope you will consider supporting Team Rally for Sarc this year by making a financial contribution to my page as I seek to support FSR and all those impacted by sarcoidosis. Your donation, of any amount, will not only help Team Rally for Sarc achieve their goals, but will help make more patient support, and one day, a cure for sarcoidosis possible.
My father was a middle-distance runner in high school. He has not gone away, but gone ahead, to meet me at the finish line.
Thank you!
Click here for more information on sarcoidosis and the Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research.
Sharon
I am humbled to be one of five charity runners selected to represent the Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research (FSR) in the 2024 TCS New York City Marathon, which will be held on November 3rd.
As the holder of a coveted charity bib, my participation in running 26.2 miles takes on a deeper meaning. It allows me to join others in giving a voice to those who live each day with this rare disease. It also offers a continuation of hope through research that will enable people to live longer, in less pain, and help bring us closer to a cure.
FSR is the leading international organization dedicated to finding a cure for sarcoidosis and improving care for sarcoidosis patients through research, education, and support. Since its establishment in 2000, FSR has fostered over $6 million in sarcoidosis-specific research efforts.
Sarcoidosis impacts approximately 1.2 million people worldwide and 200,000 in the U.S. People living with sarcoidosis wake up each day and face the challenges of living with a rare disease including the symptoms and side effects like overwhelming fatigue, trouble breathing, chest pain, headaches, joint pain, skin lesions and rashes, an overall feeling of sickness, along with other physical and mental symptoms that patients experience living with sarcoidosis. Currently, there is no known cause and limited treatment options.
I will be participating in this marathon in memory of my dad who physically left us on July 27, 2011. He had been hopeful for a cure but also chose to not stop living his life, even with the disrespectful way this disease intruded into it.
I hope you will consider supporting Team Rally for Sarc this year by making a financial contribution to my page as I seek to support FSR and all those impacted by sarcoidosis. Your donation, of any amount, will not only help Team Rally for Sarc achieve their goals, but will help make more patient support, and one day, a cure for sarcoidosis possible.
My father was a middle-distance runner in high school. He has not gone away, but gone ahead, to meet me at the finish line.
Thank you!
Click here for more information on sarcoidosis and the Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research.
Sharon
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