SuperWalk 2012

     My daughter had informed me that she had registered a team for us for the Ottawa SuperWalk.  At first I was not sure how react.  I knew I would not be the one in a wheel chair but I would be one of the youngest people there with MSA.

This is the largest national fundraising event for the Parkinson’s Society, I knew every penny counts but I wanted to make a difference.

      My daughter also told me of this logo she was designed for me. I love dragonflies, so this logo was going to have the MSA colors for the body of a dragonfly and the team name below it. It was hard imagine but it was more beautiful than words could say. She also had this tattooed on her foot, without the Brenda’s Journey.

When she showed me we bought it, and the rights, so it was our logo, which meant we could do what we wanted. What an honour not only having this tattoo, but now this logo. 

We have a trust fund called Brenda’s Journey Trust, but it is not registered so I knew that a people would want to donate to a registered organization. The Parkinson’s of Ottawa are not only registered they recognize MSA, so we could designate  the funds we raise to go towards MSA.

     MSA is often referred to as Parkinson’s Plus, because of the similarities but MSA is more aggressive.  My experience has been when we have said MSA in the past no one knows what we are talking about, but as soon as we it is cousin of Parkinson’s but more aggressive they seem they understand more.

       Our team is called Brenda’s Journey; I was thinking how are we going to raise money for our team. I contacted the  Parkinson’s Society Ottawa and told them our plans. The  

Ottawa Parkinson’s Society was a great help; they helped me draft a formal letter that I could send to my, friends, my blog readers, something to put on Twitter and Facebook. Seeing how it would be difficult for canvas door to door, I would have to depend on the Internet.

      Each day our Team amount grew and so did our total.  Our team grew to around ten and all together we raised over $5000.00 dollars. I was very happy about this.

                                                 

     Hunny picked up everyone’s shirt and my daughter and in-law’s put our logo on the back and made matching bandannas for the walk. My niece even made t-shirt for her little boys. They were going to be in their wagon so on their shirt it said, “I roll for Aunt Brenda”, on the front but our logo on the back.

     

     The day finally arrived but was cancelled because of lightening. We had everyone come to our place so we could give them a shirt, a bandanna, get a picture and thank them for their hard work in helping our team becoming the fifth highest money raisers for the SuperWalk 2012.

  

 SuperWalk 2013, September 7 & 8, see you there!