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Lena’s PMC profile page: http://www.pmc.org/profile/MJ0062
I ride because it is the one thing I CAN do when cancer leaves us feeling helpless.
I am so excited to be riding in my 3rd consecutive Pan-Mass Challenge. This year, along with TEAM LEGS, I will ride from Sturbridge to P-Town during the first weekend in August. The ride totals 192 miles; the most for me, yet, and the most challenging. I hope you will support me or another rider this year. It’s an amazing event which raises money for the Dana Farber Cancer Clinic!
While I ride, I include the names of those whom I ride for on a laminated card on my back. If you would like me to include the name of someone special, please let me know by August 1st and I will ride in that person’s honor or memory.
Lena is the love of my life. She was struck by a car on July 13th while out on a training ride for this year’s PMC. Since that time, she has endured 3 surgeries, and is scheduled for a 4th in the next week and several months of recovery. She will not pedal this year, but we’d love for her to “finish her ride” for Team LEGS pedal partner, Emily, and for Dana Farber and their good work.
Throughout this horrible experience, she has celebrated the blessings of surviving the accident and enjoying the world-class medical care here in Boston. Prior to regaining her voice, she wrote on a whiteboard “better than cancer,” and this is why she is loved by so many of us.
Lena looks forward to entering nursing school on time this fall, and further building on her career of caring for others as a pre-school teacher, Child Life Specialist, and as a mother of two.
GO LENA!
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Though we have never met, as a friend of Paul’s from high school, I am with you guys in spirit and wishing you a speedy recovery and good luck in nursing school and future endeavors. Team LEGS is a great project, and I hope the ride is very successful. Go Lena!!
Lena, My heart has ached for what you and your family have had to endure. I’m so sorry for the accident. The best of wishes are with you. Happily a Team Legs member.
Karen
Lena,
You (and Paul) are an amazing and inspirational person. Thinking of you every day. This is just ONE more thing that will make you a phenomenal Nurse!
xo
Heather
278 “Like” Lena. That’s love. Today, she goes home to continue her journey towards caring for our loved ones, and herself.
GO LENA!
Lena- you are so strong!Your attitude is an inspiration to us all. Go TEAM LEGS!
Lena- although you do not know me, I am a friend of your parents through Park City Pride. I wish you the best and god speed on your recovery!
Lena – I have never met you, but very good friends with your Wonderful mon and dad…(actually go back over 40 years with your dads wonderful friendship)….May God keep you strong and help you continue your recovery each and every day….You sound like a very strong lady and as someone else said, a true Inspiration to everyone’s heart that you touch…
LOTS OF LOVE FOR LENA!!!
Lena, you don’t know me, but I also am a friend of your parents through Park City Pride. I wish you the best and god speed on your recovery!
Your efforts mean a great deal, especially as my wife is a cancer survivor.
I am a friend of your mom & dad from Park City Pride. I am also a cancer survivor. I can only imagine what you have been through and what you face in the months ahead. Stay strong and may you get well soon. Prayers and thoughts are with you and your family!
Lena, Your mom and dad are the best. We wish you God spped in your recovert.
LENA: BARBARA & I WERE DEEPLY SADDENED, TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR ACCIDENT.
WE BOTH KNOW ABOUT YOU, THROUGH OUR ASSOCIATION WITH “THE PARK CITY PRIDE”. YOUR MOM IS MY BARITONE MOTHER, AND YOUR DAD KEEPS AN EYE ON ME, WHEN I CAN COME NORTH, TO MARCH.
WE ARE ALSO TRAIL RANGERS FOR THE BIKEWAY HERE IN PINELLAS COUNTY.
OUR PRAYERS ARE FOR YOUR SPEEDY RECOVERY.
OUR BEST WISHES.
TOM AND BARBARA SWENSON
Lena, I’ve heard so much about you from Kat and I hope to meet you some day. Very good friends of mine muster a team for PMC because their 8 year old has brain cancer. I am so sorry to hear about your accident and hope your recovery goes well. You sound like a courageous person, a great wife and mom. All my prayers and thoughts are with you!!
Hi Lena,
I march with your mom and dad in Park City Pride,they are probably the nicest people I have ever met, as the saying goes the apple dont fall to far from the tree, so I am sure you mirror them. Although we have never met I would like to wish you all of the best and and pray for your speedy recovery.
I have known Lena for some 30+ years. It has been my pleasure to watch her grow from a small child into the caring woman she is today. She is a woman who thinks of others as demonstrated by her involvement in the PMC and many other activities. I marvel at her refusal to succumb to the challenges that been placed before her recently, and the fight she has put up on her road to recovery. All my love,and best wishes to her as she recovers/
Lena, may you get better as each day goes by. I am in the Pride with your wonderful parents. You are in my prayers.
Lena – I am a member of the Park City Pride and it has been a real privilege to know and call your parents my friends. From what they say about you, I can say that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. God has blessed you and continue to stay strong. Wish you well….
Lena, I also am a friend of your Mom and Dad through the Park City Pride. Get well soon! You are an inspiration to us all.
Go Lena, I am a friend of your parents; our prayers are with you and your family
Bill Saunders
Park City Pride
FL Crew
I’d be willing to help put on a fund raiser to help with medical costs if needed. I am on Facebook and hence the link to this page.
Cyclist, Mechanic and Advocate.
Lena and family-we have not met but I know your Mom and the wonderful ways that she helps and inspires others-sounds as though you have that same wonderful, caring spirit. May your recovery progress with God’s speed.
The loving energy is inspiring!
Best Wishes
Lena, God bless youand your family as you recover from your accident. You will be in my prayers, may you be restored to a wonderful healthy life.
Prays and thoughts are with you, get well soon.
Lena!! You are in our thought here at Eaton!
~Leslie
Lena,
I am a friend of your mom’s. We are praying for a speedy recovery for you.
Lena, I work with Eaton in Asheville NC and support your mom. She is a wonderful woman, and I can tell by the comments above that you are as well. I wish you a speedy recovery. We’re all rooting for you down south!
Hi Lena, Just to let you know that Bob and I are thinking of
you, and know that you have a wonderful family and with your
spirit and everyone’s help hopefully this will all be behind
you soon and you can get back to what you really want to do.
Love & Best Wishes
Roe & Bob
Lena, I know your dear Mom, and I am hoping that you recover quickly from this. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family for a fast recovery.
You are doing a wonderful thing with your friends every year, bicycling for the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Thank you for that!
We are two more Ernie and Ruthe fans from Park City Pride! Thinking of you everyday with prayers and best wishes for a full and speedy recovery.
Best of luck to you Lena. Your mother shared the news of your commitment and injury. I wish you a speedy recovery and healing.
Lena, YOU ROCK!!!! Stay strong and keep your famous positive outlook. Team LEGS and SO MANY OTHERS ride this year when you are not able to–in honor of your vision–to keep up the fight against cancer. Healthy prayers are always coming your way!
Lena, I know your Mom from ASG; please know my thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.
The world needs many more like you. Heal well. Heal strong.
The Beatrice family is sending their love and best wishes for you. Emily has been asking about you and would like to visit whenever your ready..
Take care.
You are in our prayers every day. We are also friends of your parents through drum corps. We’re happy to hear of your progress. Keep up the good work!
Lena, I am a friend of your mom and dad with the Park City Pride. Our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. My wife is a cancer survivor. together we all can fight cancer.