Reid My Mind

PennyPushUps since 2013 has been my family’s awareness and fundraising campaign to spread information about Retinoblastoma, the childhood eye cancer that is responsible for my loss of both my eyes.

As the parent of a RB survivor it seemed right to try and do something to spread awareness.

The original idea was pretty straight forward; I’ll complete 100 push-ups a day and you sponsor me like a walk-a-thon just 1 cent per push-up… do the math!

The campaign turned into us sharing our story as well as others impacted by the cancer. Probably not a shock considering I enjoy telling people’s stories. The shock was I thought I could easily do this on video. Fortunately, I wasn’t 100 percent wrong. (Non visual video editing is possible… I do it!) Even more fortunately, my wife thought she could do a better job at the video production. She was right and she began to earn her keep and her name… Super Producer Marley Marl now formally known as Super Producer Marlett!

It became apparent that people weren’t really interested in my push-ups. One of the comments on the videos went something like; “Really interesting and important but why is there a guy doing push-ups.” LOL! I guess they didn’t listen to the introduction which summarized everything I just said about the campaign.

Focusing on raising awareness & empowering others while raising funds for World Eye Cancer Hope the name sort of wrote itself when we let the universe take over… The RAE of Hope, “Shining a light on a childhood eye cancer”.

We just finished airing our first full week of videos. We post them to our Facebook page “The RAE of Hope” and via YouTube.

I would love for you to come on over and “Like” our FB page or follow us on twitter @TheRAEofHope. The stories this year feature a bit more in the way of video production but the full story is told via audio. In fact, this year we incorporated closed captions available via YouTube, so we’re fully accessible – the way it should be!

Below is our playlist of all our videos so if this works properly you could pretty much bookmark this post and watch the latest video as we move through the month. We post new videos every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Tell a friend and help us spread the word about Childhood Cancer it can truly save a life and sight!

Thirty days of September have come and gone. World Childhood Cancer month concludes and I am happy to report another successful #PennyPushUps is in the history books. Well, maybe not the books, but definitely here on Reid My Mind.

If you’re interested in how much we raised go ahead and press play.

Just as important, we reached new people unfamiliar with Retinoblastoma. The potential of this is great. One of these individuals could see the first sign of eye cancer in a child’s photo and help save a life and or sight.

The rest of the shout outs are in the video! I’m going to go take a nap now!

“It ain’t over ‘til it’s over!”

 

We continue striving in our effort to support children with eye cancer. You can help make a difference. It’s easy…just go to www.pennypushups.org and complete the quick form. Donate what you can, we’re only asking for 1 penny per push-up; we completed 3,000 so that’s only $30. Less than two people going to a movie.

Please help us support children with eye cancer! Donate!!!!!

http://youtu.be/S5q-eHWtFwg

Less than 48 hours to show your support for children with eye cancer.

Do it now…donate!

As I blow out my 46 candles later this evening, here’s what I will include with my birthday wishes…

Please donate; support children with eye cancer.