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!

You know we had to report back…And not just via a post and a $ Amount!

One final shout out to all those who shared their stories, donors and those of you who showed your support through sharing the posts. You all are official members of the PennyPushUps Team.

I encourage you to go on over to World Eye Cancer Hope’s FB Page https://www.facebook.com/wechope/

Or www.wechope.org/

“Life and Sight for Every Child”

Thanks for your Support…Now Watch!

First, there was my Mid-Month Monolog; now my first remix. Let’s make that a ReidMix! Today we’re taking a look back at just some of the valuable lessons learned during the past 30 days.

This is the final day to support. If you haven’t already, go on over to www.pennypushups.org and hit that donate button! We are only asking for $30 or whatever you can give. I finished my part; 3,000 push-ups.

Our mission at World Eye Cancer Hope (WeCHope):

“Life and Sight for Every Child”

Visit… http://pennypushups.org/

Support: Donate, Share…Now Watch!

Telling young RB survivor Celeste’s story required getting help from her mom. The result, multiple stories of facing challenge, real advice for overcoming self-consciousness and proof that good can blossom from the bad.

“Life and Sight for Every Child”

Visit… http://pennypushups.org/

Support: Donate, Share…Now Watch!

Today’s story is upbeat, it may catch you off-guard a bit and it has style. Our RB survivor Tito Vega has a story with a beat! Let’s get it! When you’re done watching this one check out the reference link below.

“Life and Sight for Every Child”

Visit… http://pennypushups.org/

Support: Donate, Share…Now Watch!

Featured in this episode:

Diary of A Blind Man, by Nemesis