Trek for the Cure

A couple of weeks ago I stopped by a fundraiser for a local man (pictured left) who has started his own movement for the fight against cancer. To raise money and awareness he is running/walking from Fountain Square in downtown Cincinnati to Santa Monica California. His name is Brandon Perry and he's a local club promoter who has lost one too many people to cancer.

He and I have several mutual friends on facebook and I saw what he was doing through them. I requested to be his friend to see if I could find our more information about it or help in some way. I went to his website: http://www.trekforthecause.com/ where I found that he left for his journey on April 3rd, the three year anniversary of my daddy's passing. I wrote on his facebook wall telling him how much I admired what he was doing, that my dad too has passed away from cancer and he coincidentally was leaving on the anniversary. He said if I got a picture of my father to him he would take it with him on his journey.

I took my picture to him on the day of his fundraiser at Lunar. I loved how genuine he was. Some people do good things for praise; to be noticed. I could tell right away that this was not Brandon's motives. You could tell he cared, he was truly sorry for my loss and he reminded me that his Trek for the cause was for my dad. He told me he was leaving a trail of pictures from here to California of all the pictures he'd received from people. He will be taking a picture of where he leaves my father's photo so I can see where his photo will be. He gave me a big hug and I wished him good luck.

I also stopped by his send off on fountain square yesterday. I got there pretty early so it wasn't in full swing when I was there but I've heard it was an amazing send off. I look forward to seeing where he is on his journey everyday as he updates his followers via facebook. It is such an amazing selfless thing to do and I'm not sure if he knows what it means to those of us who are effected by cancer. It means more to me than I thought it would. Thank you Brandon for being an inspiration.