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 Our Year in Review
  

Volume 59
                                  
                                                                                                                December 2015/January 2016




   CANCER will be
 CURED sometime
        why not NOW?
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Events that supported
our giving  

Ice Skating Event

Skating for the Cure
was an outstanding event with eight young champions preforming. Click on link for more information. 

Book

The Blue Dots book explains to children the meaning of the blue dots through the eyes of a young boy Chester and his dog Buster. Introduced this year to help parents explains their cancer story to their children.

Blue Dot Ornament

My Blue Dots ornaments were offered to those who would like to honor their friend or loved one with this hand blown art gift. 



Standing With You pins were gifted as well as sold to those who want to show their friend that they were Standing With You as they went through their cancer experience.

SHGCC Event

2015 Charity Event
 Sue McCollum attended this event that supports local cancer nonprofits. they have supported My Blue Dots for many years and we thank them for their support of our organization.

Thanks to all of you for your support of MBD



Blue Dot Ornament

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    Message from
               Sue McCollum
 
     
Dear Friends,

 January 1st was instituted by Caesar as the first day of the year, partly to honor the month's namesake: Janus,
the Roman god of beginnings, whose two faces allowed him to look back in to the past and forward into the future. Thus, as we begin this New Year, I would first like to take a look
back to share some of the things we have been involved with and thank you for your support. Then we will look forward and celebrate this New Year knowing that each year we are getting closer to a final cure for cancer.
      
Until Next Time... 
                                  Sue 
                                                                                      



My Blue Dots 
we give because you gave 


Albert and Erinn  

This year we were able to increase our
My Blue Dots Endowed Fund by gifting $20,000 
to support cancer research.
This gift will support the work of Dr. Erinn Rankin with Dr. Albert Koong at the Stanford Universtiy Medical Center.


Christmas tree

My Blue Dots gave this beautiful tree to those in the
Radiation/Oncology Dept.at Stanford to provide some holiday cheer for those being treated.


St. Luke's pins 

St. Luke's Wood River Hospital
in Ketchum, Idaho My Blue Dots gave Standing With You pins to the staff as well as the patients to show we are all standing together in the fight against cancer.


Camp Kesem

My Blue Dots supports
Camp Kesem at Stanford University. Their mission is to build a supportive community for Bay Area families coping with cancer by creating a week of Camp for the children whose parents are coping with cancer. My Blue Dots gave pins to all of the camp counselors to show that we are all standing together in this fight. 


Pins given
"Our patients have been so touched by the generosity of My Blue Dots...When we hand out those three blue dots to patients as they complete their course of radiation treatments, it demonstrates we are all united in our fight against cancer."
- Quynh-Thu Le, MD FACR,
Professor and Chair
Department of Radiation Oncology, 
Stanford University Medical Center

The pins are also worn by the doctors to show that we are all standing together in the fight agains cancer. 
2000 pins have been given 




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We thank you for your interest and support in
 
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My Blue Dots is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization 
Tax ID #20-5469956
to donate by check, mail to: 
My Blue Dots 
P.O. Box 60725 
Palo Alto, Ca. 94306 
 
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