Boobie-Thon News

KatScan Update!

2008-10-09T19:54:11Z

I wanted to pop in and give you all an update on Kat, who was the recipient of the Bloggers Helping Bloggers. She emailed me the last day of the Boobie-Thon and I sent out a quick note about it, but I wanted to sit down and write a proper blog post about it.

Kat had her post-op appointment on October 7th, where they removed the stitches from the surgery that saved her life!

Kat wrote:

Thanks again for everything, you have no idea how much this has all meant to me. The outpouring of support has been amazing and so overwhelming to me. Over $1,000 to help me, incredible.
I will be having another surgery in about 6 months, a revision surgery to get my head laced correctly, but it’s ok, I’m ok with it. I’m alive, I’m here with my sons.

We are so glad to have been able to help Kat and we wish you all the best.

Thank you to all of our donors who came out and helped Kat and you helped us have an amazing 7th Boobie-Thon!

Boobie-Thon Raises $9,300.00

2008-10-08T04:14:52Z

I don’t even know what to say. We have raised $9,300.00 in 7 days, which far exceeds what we raised last year and it also breaks our record set back in 2006. *blink* *blink*

I am in shock. So so happy and overwhelmed and emotional. This week has been a whirlwind and I prayed we would do well. And we did great!

Robyn sent a note a few moments ago letting me know how happy she is for all of us:

A huge thank you to all of the coordinators, volunteers, donors, photo-participants, and people who helped spread the word—this has grown into something beyond my wildest dreams and expectations and I couldn’t be
more proud of everyone involved from 2002-2008

The Boobie-Thon would never have celebrated seven years if Robyn hadn’t helped out a friend. She worked her ass off to make this a respectable fundraiser and one that so many people participate in year after year. We look forward to many more!

Everyone’s support and help has made this week so amazing. I can not thank you all enough for donating, participating, volunteering and tweeting your hearts out for us. I am so proud of what we have done here and I am so thrilled to be part of this awesome event. When I first sent in my rack shot years ago, I never imagined I would be sitting here telling you all that we have raised over $50,000.00 between 2002-2008!

Dig Deep for the boobies!

2008-10-08T03:04:59Z

Update: Thank you everyone! We just beat our all-time record set in 2006 and our current total raised is $9,261.00!! Thank you all for donating!

Oh my!!! We are getting down to the wire. We have one hour left and we are right now $145 away from breaking the all-time Boobie-Thon record which was set back in 2006. And I know we can do this. Please help us and donate now!

Play The Presidential Debate Boobie Game!

2008-10-08T00:24:41Z

Yes, we’ve read all about the Presidential/Vice-Presidential “Drinking Games” that are going around and we wanted to offer up something a little different.

You don’t have to put down your glass (we are gonna need the alcohol to actually watch the debate) to play this game, but you will need to open up your wallets for a great cause....

The Boobies

We’re playing The Presidential Debate Boobie Game! Please help us get the word out and play along with us. I will be playing

The Guidelines

Donate $1 when:

Mccain says “My Friend(s)”
McCain talks about being a POW
McCain mentions Sarah Palin
McCain talks about Islamic Radicals/Terrorists
Obama writes something down
Obama says “eight years” or “more of the same”
Obama mentions his tax cuts for the middle class
either candidate says “Main Street”
either candidate claims to be “bipartisan” or working “across the aisle”
either candidate mentions mortgages or foreclosures

If you plan on playing, let me know!

Update: We did not include some common phrases like “Maverick” and “Hope” because we would like you all to afford your rent/mortgage payments this month. Thanks for playing!

Update Two: The guidelines are just that. Guidelines. If you want to pick just three items from the list, pick three. If you want to play them all, play them all. It’s fun, it’s for charity!

and we’ll include your link here.

Participants

Swank Web Style Goodie Bag

2008-10-07T23:36:29Z

Update: The Swank Web Style Goodie Bag #2 has beeen claimed!! Thank you for donating!

Swank Web Style Goodie Bag #1

1 Custom Blog Design for your WordPress, TypePad or Blogger powered blog

In addition, you will also receive access to the 2008 Pay Per Boobies and the 2007 Pay Per Boobies section.

The next person who donates $250.00 or more to the Boobie-Thon™, will win the Swank Web Style Goodie Bag #1 and the 2 Pay-Per-Boobie Passes (2008 & 2007).

So you get a new blog design & bare boobies for $250.00 AND your donation to Komen is tax deductible.

Go Donate

Swank Web Style Goodie Bag #2

1 Full Year of Hosting (Mini Package)

In addition, you will also receive access to the 2008 Pay Per Boobies and the 2007 Pay Per Boobies section.

The next person who donates $75.00 or more to the Boobie-Thon™, will win the Swank Web Style Goodie Bag #2 and the 2 Pay-Per-Boobie Passes (2008 & 2007).

Go Donate

We want to personally thank Emily and the other women at Swank Web Style for their generous donation and for supporting the Boobie-Thon this year.

Swank Web Style is a full service design studio offering affordable web design and hosting for individual bloggers, professionals and small business owners.

If you would like to be a Boobie-Thon™ Sponsor, please get in touch.

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Photo submissions close in 30 minutes!!!

2008-10-07T23:32:30Z

Get your photos in by 8pm Eastern!

Help us reach $9,000

2008-10-07T22:48:56Z

Update: We have reached $9,000. Thank you for donating

We are currently at $8,646.00 and we want to see $9,000 by the time we wrap things up here tonight at midnight Eastern.~~All donations of $15 or more will get access to the Pay Per Boobie Gallery until we hit $9,000.00.~~

We are here waiting for your donation to come in and email you the logins to see all the bare boobies. Ready. Set. Go!

You got us here!

2008-10-07T19:34:06Z

Can you believe that we are $450 away from breaking NINE THOUSAND DOLLARS! So far we have raised $7,310.48 for Susan G. Komen For The Cure and $1,240.52 for The KatScan Fund! It is truly amazing what everyone has done for the Boobie-Thon, from the volunteers, to the donors, to our sponsors, to our Boobie Ball friends! And of course, all of our wonderful participants who take shots of their racks in the hope that it will raise money to find the cure.

I thought last year was amazing, but I am blown away yet again. Thank you. Thank you!

On our way to $8500!

2008-10-07T16:12:15Z

Update: We have reach $8,501.00! Thank you for donation!

We are currently at $8,431.00 and we need to break $8,500 this afternoon!! So all donations of $15 or more will get access to the Pay Per Boobie Gallery until we hit $8,500.00

We are here waiting for your donation to come in and email you the logins to see all the bare boobies. Ready. Set. Go!

Today is the Last Day!!

2008-10-07T12:49:50Z

Last Day! Last Call! Last of The Boobies!

Can you believe it’s been a week? This week just flies by when you are in a Big Boobie Blur™ and it seems as though everything else around you simply stops. It’s weird and you are probably looking at me all crazy right now. Blame it on the Big Boobie Blur™!

Okay, so Day 7 starts off and we’re at $8,271.00!! Which is amazing and I never expected our total to be this high. I wanted it to be, but I wasn’t expecting it. Thank you all so much! Let’s make this final day a huge success and continue to donate and send in your rack shots!

Updates are coming across the site, so stay tuned for more boobie picks and other fun stuff on this final day!

You have amazed me

2008-10-07T03:52:24Z

Thank you all for your donations and your continued support. At the close of day six we have raised $8,121.00! That blows my mind. Everyone has worked so hard and it’s paid off. We are back tomorrow for our last full day.

Am I a Cancer Survivor? Yes, I Am.

2008-10-07T01:31:07Z

Am I a Cancer survivor? Yes. I Am.

Diagnosed with stage 2 invasive lobular breast cancer at the age of 30. I still, to this day, sit in my oncologist office, waiting to be seen. I often talk amongst other patients, listening to their struggles. Thinking of how I felt to sit in the same chair. The chemo chair. Thinking of how it felt to have the needle forced into the port on my chest. Thinking if how it felt for Beth, my chemo nurse (angel), to push the Adriamycin into my young frail body. To sit and keep my spirits up, knowing I would be in bed, detached from the world, for at least another five days. To be useless to my children, and myself.

To think back on how I felt.. All the journals, and blogs...all about me. So self-absorbed.. but at the time, that is how I felt, and damn it...I was entitled. From now on though, I realize that this is more than survivorship. It is about engagement, activism, involvement, and advocacy. I will fight until no more lives are lost. Until no more “Mommies” have to worry about seeing their daughters grow up. Until no more “Mommies” have to watch their daughters fight for their lives, as my “Mommy” did, and until no more daughters have to watch their “Mommies” suffer the way my daughter did.

To have had some time to put this all into perspective has given me a new outlook. Now, when I converse with a newly diagnosed survivor, I feel distinctly separate from them. I see them sitting, waiting for their first chemo treatment, not knowing what to expect. Hair still intact, no clue as to what is about to happen. I do not pity them, but I can reassure them. I can relate, but yet I feel no comfort in the fact that I am no longer one of them. I can give my own personal advice, and only hope that they will listen. I have, so far, won my battle, and feel like I was left here for a reason. If I can help just one woman in her fight, I have served my purpose.

My ultimate mission, and goal, is...By the time my daughter would have to be worried about this horrific disease...It will be non-existant. It will be something of the past. I can only hope, that you, my friends, will join me in this fight. PLEASE, spread the awareness, do not be afraid to tell your best friend, your sister, or your mom, to check their boobies. Cancer does NOT discriminate!!! I was diagnosed with Stage 2 Invasive Lobular Breast Cancer at age 30 , and my baby sister at age 27, with Hodgkins Lymphoma. We are both SURVIVORS.

You may need to be your own advocate. I was told “you are young, it is probably nothing, follow up in 6 months.” That was bull. YOU know your body. YOU will know if something is not right!! Do not be afraid to go with your gut. I had to fight for EVERY test I had, and I thank God every day that I did!!!

PLEASE help me in the fight against Breast Cancer! Together we can make a difference. Let’s make this something we tell our great grand children about! Something that will make them ask...What was that?...And hopefully we can answer… Nothing that you will ever have to worry about!!! Thanks for reading!!!!xoxo

~Jessica

We cracked $8K!

2008-10-07T00:48:21Z

We officially cracked $8,000 on Day 6 of the Boobie-Thon! Thank you all so much. Our current total is $8,021.00 and we are still accepting donations.

Getting closer to $8,000!

2008-10-06T22:05:19Z

Alright, here were are, on the verge of $8,000.00! All donations of $15.00 or more that come in from now until we break $8K will get free access to the Pay Per Boobies section. We can do this. Deep deep guys, the Boobie-Thon is coming to an end tomorrow October 7, 2008 at midnight and we could use all the donations we can get!! Please help!

~~Also, don’t forget, a donation of $100 will win you the fabulous~~ The Moxie Prize Pack has been taken!

Moxie Prize Pack up for grabs!

2008-10-06T15:48:28Z

Update: The Moxie Prize Pack is gone! Thank you for donating!

We have a great little deal here for you from one of our Boobie-Thon™ Sponsors.

Joelle Reeder & Kathy Scoleri, also known as The Moxie Girls™, have donated a fabulous prize for us to giveaway!

Moxie Prize Pack

1 signed copy of “The IT Girl’s Guide to Blogging with Moxie”
1 Jaqua Beauty Hand Creme in Pina Colada
1 martini shaker
1 IT Girl’s laptop mouse
1 “All Damsel, No Distress” babydoll tee (Large) by Jaqua Beauty

In addition, you will also receive access to the 2008 Pay Per Boobies and the 2007 Pay Per Boobies section. Double the boobies!!

~~The next person who donates $100.00 or more to the Boobie-Thon™, will win the Moxie Prize Pack and the 2 Pay-Per-Boobie Passes (2008 & 2007)!~~

Go Donate

We want to personally thank Joelle & Kathy for their prize donation and for continuing to support the Boobie-Thon year after year. They are great women and kickass designers, who I am also proud to call my friends. Thank you both!

Joelle Reeder & Kathy Scoleri, also known as The Moxie Girls™, are the design duo behind the popular blog design firm Moxie Design Studios™. With 20 collective years of internet design experience, they are leaders in the blog design market and authors of “The IT Girl’s Guilde to Blogging with Moxie” (Wiley & Sons, 2007). Joelle & Kathy are strong advocates of breast health and cancer research and have supported Boobie-Thon™ since the beginning. Yay boobies!

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