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There are 59 days left until the MS Walk in Canandaigua! Current Status: Goal: $1,000 Current Total: $225 (23%) Sponsors: JÂy RÛßeÒ Tom Benson Anonymous Jane G Scoundrels: Jack If you choose to participate: Donations (tax deductible in 2018) can be made at my MS Society page: http://main.nationalmssociety.org/goto/FamilyRockpile On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/349924721875823/?ref=bookmarks THANK YOU!
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MS Walk Canandaigua - Current Status: Goal: $1,000 Current Total: $175 (18%) Sponsors: JÂy RÛßeÒ Tom Benson Anonymous Scoundrels: Jack
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The Canandaigua MS Walk is May 20, but donations that sponsor me continue through June. Donations to the National MS Society are always accepted. My goal is $1,000 and I have $75 to start things off.
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We are walking again this year, but moving our site from Rochester on the Genessee River to Canandaigua Lake on May 20th. The walk will start at Sonnenberg Gardens. Donate at MS site: MS WALK 2018 - Help raise money to fight MS Donate on Facebook: Family Rocks! STILL ROCKING after all these years! It is time for my ANNUAL request for people to sponsor me when my team, Family Rocks! walk about 10K at the MS Walk in Canandaigua, NY. This year the walk is Sunday, May 20th. The walk starts at Sonnenberg Gardens Personal stuff: I was DIAGNOSED with relapsing-remitting Multiple Sclerosis in 1994. I know now that I had MS before then, because there were times when things were “not quite right”. I would tire easily, and walk with a slight limp. My vision would be blurry and I sometimes felt like I was seeing double if I did not concentrate on an image. The symptoms would come and go, and were not COMPLETELY stopping me from doing the things I wanted to do. But the official date I was tested for and a diagnosis confirmed for MS was June 1994. The nature of a relapsing-remitting disease is that it can “come and go”. This has become a real family event raising over $18,000 since 2003, thanks to the spirit of paying it forward by our many sponsors. No donation is too small (or too big!). The important thing is that whether you sponsor me or someone else in the fight against MS, Cancer, Lupus, The Red Cross and a myriad of worthy causes, do something. If you have no money, volunteer to help if you can. We all need to pull together and not wait for someone else to help us! We have been in both the Top 50 and Top 100 Club multiple times as a top contributor BASED ENTIRELY ON YOUR GENEROSITY. Donations (tax deductible in 2018) can be made at my MS Society page: http://main.nationalmssociety.org/goto/FamilyRockpile On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/349924721875823/?ref=bookmarks The National Multiple Sclerosis Society has excellent ratings as far as the percent of donations received, how they are used, and the percentage of “overhead” for salaries and facilities. Here are a few examples: The National Health Council Standards of Excellence Certification Program reports: " The Society mobilizes people and resources to drive research for a cure and to address the challenges of everyone affected by MS. To fulfill this mission, the Society funds cutting-edge research, drives change through advocacy, facilitates professional education, collaborates with MS organizations around the world, and provides programs and services designed to help people with MS and their families move their lives forward. In 2014 alone, through our comprehensive nationwide network of programs and services, the Society devoted $122.2 million to assist more than one million individuals to connect to the people, information and resources they needed. To move us closer to a world free of MS, the Society also invested $50.2 million to support more than 380 new and ongoing research projects around the world. The Society is dedicated to achieving a world free of MS."
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I always wondered if they drank the water that they bathed in from the water tower. (I know it was for the steam engine) Andy Griffith Show Big Bang Theory
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LDR Charpit on Lake Avenue in Charlotte has one of the best beef burgers in town, along with excellent onion rings. LDR Char Pit
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They close at 8:00 PM now. It became too much of a magnet for drunks and druggees and other pillars of society. I am not judging - I was there too! I just never wasted a plate by donating it back to Nick's. That is called "ambiance". Sounds good but it is not a Garbage Plate!
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I did not see this posted so I decided to share it. Nick Tahou's s 100 Yeas Old! Official HQ of the WNYTBDGPS. Click for video!
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He preached and lived what he believed, as he interpreted it from the Bible. He asked others to find what he had found. Billy Graham did NOT ask for your money, like almost every TV evangelist. Believe as he did or don't, but he deserves respect for walking the line. RIP A great story.
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Nothing personal, but I really hope you are guessing wrong. I did NOT enjoy the TBDHOT when it was on Thursday night, as much as on Sundays. It is much harder for out-of-towners to make it. No problem for me since it is only a 90 minute drive if I take my time. The farther away someone has to travel to the game, the more complicated night games make it for family, work, hotels, and tailgate parties. Plus night games give the ass clown fiery table divers more time to get primed. Bowling Ball shots = Cool Table diving = Community Embarrassment Hope it is not the opener!
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Logged in to see how things were going. Sorry to hear they did not get the whole tumor, but you seem to be cared for by the best doctors and facilities available. That is a very positive thing. I am SO glad to hear she is making progress. It is amazing how the simplest task can be a major milestone for one person and something most of us do hundreds of times daily without a second thought. Hang in there. I pray for you to have the strength to climb this mountain together.
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Saying prayers for you and your family. People do not realize how widespread addiction is today or how incredibly high the impact is on us all God Bless.
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Happy to hear the scans are clean (no MS lesions or bone spurs). I am very lucky! Thanks. If I did not tell you, you would not know I had MS, in most situations. But this thread is about your wife. My prayers for a complete recovery!!
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The is no Q or B in Taylor. (Just kidding) I find this whole thread rather funny because if they actually WIN the Super Bowl with Taylor, he will be God. If they lose to the Jaguars, he will be the picture accompanying SUCK on Wiki.
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Or a Sharknado! Drink more wine.
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Prayers for a full recovery! What were the symptoms that caused you to go to the hospital? I have read that they can monitor the spinal chord function during surgery to minimize damage to healthy tissue. Many times the tumor is benign and side effects temporary. They have not been able to get tissue for a biopsy yet, right? I recently had routine periodic MRI scans of my brain, spine, and neck for my MS and they found no new MS lesions, but they saw bone spurs on the same vertebrae as your wife's tumor. I am lucky. Now I have a trifecta: multiple sclerosis, generalized anxiety disorder, and cervical spinal stenosis. The first two are under control by prescription medications, and the third will go untreated (no surgery) unless or until a couple ibuprofen are all I need for pain relief, or they get larger and restrict flow of spinal fluids. I declined CT scans and surgery at this time. All considered I have "conditions" not concerns! Good luck to you and hang in there. Edit: I was diagnosed with MS over twenty years ago and I was able to work until 2015. I still do many things but pace myself. I also consider that I am not in my 40's anymore, so 10K's and backpacking are too hard for me now. It is only in the last few years I that stopped hiking up mountains, snow shoeing and cross country skiing. I am still chasing the younger grandchildren. I have eight of them from almost one to 22 years old.
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The last time the Bills were in the playoffs...
rockpile replied to DC Tom's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
My first game at the rockpile was (I think) 1964, but it might have been earlier. I met Tom Day and shook his hand. -
The last time the Bills were in the playoffs...
rockpile replied to DC Tom's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Not if you had to carry one! ... Training Camp was not yet in Pittsford. -
The last time the Bills were in the playoffs...
rockpile replied to DC Tom's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
#6. I am still the Rockpile! -
The last time the Bills were in the playoffs...
rockpile replied to DC Tom's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
LOL. I had a regular column "On this day in Bills History". -
McDermott - Better Lucky then Good?????
rockpile replied to Billsfan1972's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
In 1987, Buffalo was 7-8 with THREE wins and ONE loss decided by Three points or less to finish fourth of five teams in the AFC East In 1988 They were 12-4, with FIVE wins and ONE loss decided by Three points or less to finish first in the East. . Jim Kelly and Marv Levy were both essentially rookies on those teams. Was that luck or did they start to figure out how to turn the close games into victories? Just looking for opinions, not arguments. -
Motel 6 actually cost $75. I just wanted a place where it was close to Danny's on Saturday to see friends that was clean, had indoor plumbing and a bed. Yes, I have a car, but it is nice to have a very short drive FROM the pub on Saturday night and TO Hammer's in the early A.M. If it was not the opening day tailgate, I would drive in from Rochester in the morning. Opening day is the only time I see many of my friends.
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Motel 6 on the Thruway ramp in Hamburg was $105.00. It is like a long trailer with doors. $128 is more like Red Roof price not the Ritz.
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Sadly I agree.