Joel B. Peigh Foundation

Posted by Joel on June 4th, 2009 filed in General stuff

Hey all.  Hope all is well in your world.  Just plugging away in mine.  On the personal front, April and I have been busy.  We made a trip with friends over to St. Louis a couple weeks back and saw a couple Cardinal victories.  We had a really good time.  We also are tending our garden this year with the kids.  Rachel stays on top of the watering and we even have a few peppers beginning to bear fruit.  The little things get us jacked up around here.

We have started a new treatment as of  Tuesday.   Apparently,  there are 5 different chemotherapy drugs that are approved for my type of cancer.  We have gone through 4 of them as they didn’t work for me and we have now started the 5th.   In the event this one doesn’t work, we’ll be back into more experimental and clinical trial drugs.  I should have a new scan completed in 8 weeks to determine progress.  Keep our fingers crossed.

As you might have noticed a link on the front of the web page taking you to a new website for the Joel B. Peigh foundation for the “peighitforward golf classic”.  I’ve wanted to start a foundation for awhile now and we are in the process of completing that.  The foundation will be designed to host fundraisers.  The golf outing is just the first in what I hope will be many more to come.  My hopes are that the foundation will survive and thrive long after me.  It will be designed to raise money to primarily be filtered to two main areas.  1 — Cancer research and 2 — Families in need that have been afflicted.

Through my journey, I have noticed that this disease is in dire need of research dollars.  As good as care is in 2009, curative solutions are still a long ways away and unfortunately in our world that means dollars must be raised to battle this disease.  I also want a portion of proceeds to go and help families that have their world turned upside down by this disease.  Acquiring cancer changes everything in an individuals life from outlook to being able to function tasks that were taken for granted.  I want to be able to help families with their bills, groceries, gas, etc as they undergo their treatments.  We’ll make sure that research dollars will get into the hands of the doctors doing research as opposed to charities with large overhead to eat.

Our 1st event will be August 15th at River Glen Golf Course.  You can sign up from the website and mail your entry fee in.  If you have any problems, please contact us and we’ll help.  There will be plenty of prizes for entrants to win and I look forward to seeing you all there.  If you’d like to sponsor your business or a hole, that is available, it should be  a really fun day.  Gonna keep it short.  I know its been awhile since I’ve posted and am thankful to April for picking up the slack.  Will talk to you soon

Joel


10 Responses to “Joel B. Peigh Foundation”

  1. Connie Matalon Says:

    Hi Joel,

    It is SO wonderful to check out your blog this morning and read your post about the Joel B. Peigh Foundation. The Foundation is an EXCELLENT idea. As always, your words are an inpsiration.
    Cousin Connie

  2. Julie Wolfschlag NIezer Says:

    Joel,

    It is so great to hear from you and equally as great to hear of the Joel B. Peigh Foundation…yet another inspiration you are sharing with SO MANY! It gives many of us that have been wanting to reach out and help in some capacity the opportunity to do just that! As far as the chemo goes…I’m banking that the “5th time” is going to be the charm for you.

    Still hoping and praying…Julie

  3. Carrie Peigh Colvin Says:

    Just like Julie…
    Still Hoping, Still Praying…

  4. Mary-Caroline Peddie and Marc Miller Says:

    as always….amazed and inspired. We love the #5 in this house….it’s a lucky number. So many in this world are in search of purpose and peace and your words read as if you have found and embraced both.
    you and your family are in my thoughts and prayers…….always,
    Mary-Caroline

  5. Paula Cooprider Says:

    It’s good to hear from you. I’m glad that both of you find time and words to update us. We are excited about the Golf Classic. How like you to think of helping other! So far, I haven’t found anyone who wants me to be in their foursome! Imagine that. Rhett is teaching me to bowl on the Wii game. Nobody would want me on their bowling team other. I so hope that your fatigue is shorter lived than it has been before. And I’m counting #5 to be the one but if it’s not, then a clinical trial will be okay, too. Love, Paula

  6. Erin Carr Says:

    You already have peppers on your plants? Oh man, I am going to loose for sure. I got mine into the ground 2 weeks after yours but still hope to outgrow yours. I don’t have much hope for the Topsy Turvey to work out so I only tried one that way, the rest are in pots. I’ll have to ask Rachel how she gets hers watered.

    Looking forward to this week with your kids. It is always so fun to see the cousins play.

    Take Care,
    Erin

  7. Karen Allen Says:

    Joel! Great to hear from you. You and your family are being prayed for by folks you haven’t met.
    Karen

  8. Paula Cooprider Says:

    Have been thinking about you. Hope the fatigue has abated some. I expect your house is more quiet this week but it will be fun to hear their stories when they return. Hope to see you before long. Take Care, Paula

  9. Dana Harlan Says:

    Joel, I have been reading up on you since last winter and am praying for you
    endlessly. Hang in there and love to all. You are such an inspiration to all who read your website.

  10. Jodie Rich (Neihardt) Says:

    A year. Hooray for a few energetic days! You are doing some amazing things for so many families who will go through these challenges someday, as well as amazing things with your own family. Enjoy those peppers! We’re hoping for some cucumbers to grow in 100 degree weather. Should be interesting!
    Have a great summer hanging with the kids! Thanks to you and April for the energy to write (she puts me in tears).
    Love & Prayers,
    Jodie

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