Pre-Registration

Please email Elizabeth Jordan at:

elizabeth@oakky.org or call 502-708-1625

1st Annual OAK Texas Hold’em Tournament FUNdraiser

Saturday, May 19, 2012

6pm

Middletown VFW Post #1170

107 Evergreen Road

Louisville, KY 40243

$80 Buy-In

Optional High Hand Pot

Cash only please!

At least $1000 1st Place

and 8 spots paid*

*based on 100 players

•Pull Tabs

• 50/50

• Raffles

Reserve your spot at www.oakky.org

or call 502-708-1625 for more info.

All proceeds benefit local Ovarian Cancer Programs.

OAK is a 501C3 organization.  Tax ID# 61-1393292. ORG# 0002257

Kit Fullenlove

Public Relations manager

BaptistHospitalEast/Baptist Hospital Northeast

kfullenlove@bhsi.com

(502) 897-8343

Or

Elizabeth Jordan

elizabeth@oakky.org

502-708-1625

BHTP ticket BHN 2012

Free to All Gynecological Cancer Survivors

$10.00 in advance

$15.00 at the door

To buy tickets online Please visit:  https://www.sagepayments.net/eftcart/forms/donate.asp?M_id=521945297565

Follow Link for Corporate Sponsorship:  (We accept credit cards,  personal & business virtual checks):

https://www.sagepayments.net/eftcart/forms/donate.asp?M_id=521945297565

• Gold Sponsorship for $1000.00:  Acknowledgement of sponsorship in Media Advertisements & Interiviews; Corporate Logo on O.A.K. Website & on running shirt & 10 complimentary tickets to Runners Spaghetti Dinner.
• Silver Sponsorship for $500.00:  Corporate Logo on O.A.K. Website & on running shirt & 10 complimentary tickets to Runners Spaghetti Dinner.
• Teal Sponsorship for $250.00:  Corporate Logo on O.A.K. Website &  10 complimentary tickets to Runners Spaghetti Dinner.

When I met, Stephanie, two years ago, things were not so good. She had been through two years of chemotherapy and radiation. She was simply fighting to live. I heard about her through my mom (also a cancer survivor) because Stephanie had started coming to support group meetings at OAK .

At that time, Stephanie’s only hope was to head to Houston’s M.D. Anderson and do a stem-cell transplant. This would mean leaving her two-year old son, Aydyn, for three months. It’s a serious procedure. They practically have to kill you with chemotherapy so that your body won’t reject the stem-cells.

I felt horrible for her. I couldn’t stop thinking about her and the whole situation. My husband would say I was obsessed. She was so young, a newly-wed, and had this beautifull little boy. I couldn’t imagine how difficult it would be to leave your baby for that long. So, I called and offered to do what I love to do…a photo session. She took me up on it. We finally were able to do it, the day before she left for Houston. Talk about getting down to the wire. I can’t even begin to tell you how hard that session was. But I felt so glad that we had done it. I made a slideshow of the session and mailed a copy to Stephanie and Curtis in Houston and one to Aydn, who was staying with a friend in Louisville.

Fast-forward to today. Her two-year anniversary is coming up. That’s a milestone in the cancer world. She remains cancer-free. She still gets frequent scans and everything is clean. She and her husband, Curtis, have now became foster parents to three siblings. (I wish I could post picture of them, too, but I decided that I shouldn’t for privacy issues.) So do you see why I use the word “amazing” to describe her? Let’s not leave out her awesome, soul-mate of a husband, Curtis. I saved an email he sent me, when they received their slideshow, while at MD Anderson. It was very heart-felt. And it’s in my folder of notes that I look at when I am feeling a little down about photography. (Yes, I do go though periods of total photography funk.)