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Football Walk for Liver Wellness

A football themed walk... promoting liver health and helping to prevent, treat and cure liver disease.

September 30th, 2007

Contact: Elizabeth Buell
Phone: 617.527.5600
Web: Email

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Join us as we score a touchdown for the 30 million adults and children in the U.S. affected by liver disease!

When the American Liver Foundation (ALF) organized the first Football Walks for Liver Wellness in 2005, we became the first and only charitable organization to connect our mission with America’s love of football, community by community. The football walks are signature ALF events that bring together patients, organ donors, family members, friends and volunteers to:

Raise awareness of the prevalence of liver disease
Reach out to people with liver disease
Educate the public about the liver and its importance
Promote liver wellness
Raise funds for critically needed liver disease research and education

South Boston Waterfront

Five - mile walk
Registration 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Walk begins at 10:15 a.m.

To form a team, join a team or sponsor a walker in the South Boston Walk click here.

Directions to Mother’s Rest Area:

Ample free parking is available at the Bayside Expo Center North Entrance.

Take Exit 15 off of Route 93 and follow the signs to Day Blvd. Proceed to the North Bay Side Expo Center - Day Blvd. Entrance. Turn right and park in the lot.

(165 Day Boulevard is the address of the bathhouse at Carson Beach in South Boston. The Mother's Rest area, where the walk will begin, is right beside that.)

If traveling by MBTA, take the Red Line to the JFK/UMass stop.

Route:
The 5-mile flat, scenic course along the waterfront beings on Day Boulevard across from Moakley Park. Walkers proceed on Day Boulevard to the Castle Island parking lot and back to the finish line at the Bayside Expo Center North Entrance.

Western MA Walk

Willow Brook Pavilion at Look Park
Florence, MA
One to three - mile walk
Registration 11:00 a.m.
Walk 12:00 p.m. - 2 p.m.
For more information call John Helin at 413.575.6064 or 413.533.3472

To form a team, join a team or sponsor a walker in the Western, MA Walk click here.

Directions to Look Park:

Frank Newhall
Look Memorial Park
300 North Main Street
Florence, MA 01062
413.584.5457
http://www.lookpark.org/

From Springfield/Connecticut area: I-91 north to exit 19; at end of ramp, follow attractions sign arrows. Cross Rt. 9. You are now on Damon road. Go to next light and go straight through. This is Bridge Road. Approx. 2 miles to look park. 25-35 minutes

From Amherst area: Rt. 9 west over Coolidge bridge to light. Turn right. At next light, go straight 2 miles to look park. 25-35 minutes

From Greenfield/Vermont area: Take I-91 south to exit 20. At light turn right. Approx. 2 miles to look park. 25-35 minutes

From Pittsfield area: From Lee, Lenox or Adams route 7 to route 9. Take Rt. 9 east toward Windsor and Northampton. The park entrance is on the right just past the V.A. Medical center. Approx. 1 hour driving time

From Boston area: Take Mass Turnpike west to exit 4 west Springfield. Follow directions from Springfield. Approx. 2 hours

From Albany area: Mass Turnpike east to exit 4 West Springfield. Follow directions from Springfield. Approx. 2 hours

From Westfield/Southwick: Rt. to Northampton center. At light (academy of music on right & Edwards church directly ahead of you) turn left onto Rt. 9 west. Stay on Rt. 9 through the village of Florence until you come to the park on left. Approx. 30-45 minutes.

Why I walk?

* To support my patients and collect money for a cure for liver disease. – Kim Sullivan

* I treat patients with liver disease every day and I have seen first hand the benefit money can make to support these patients. I feel what we need more now than ever is public education about these diseases! -Amber Trudel

* My family and I walk for my father. He's been sick for 13 years and is now on his "last leg." You will see us there EVERY YEAR!! -Kerri Admirand

* I walk to support a family member suffering from liver disease and who also wants to make a difference. - Lisa Phillips

* To honor my mother, and to help keep her memory alive. Also to help raise awareness about the importance of becoming an organ donor. -Kris Alexander

* We walk because my daughter, Lily, was diagnosed with Biliary Atresia when she was 7 weeks old. She received a liver transplant on 4/6/07 at Children's Hospital at the age of 19 months. She is doing great! We raise money so that someday they may find a cure for BA. -Lori Savoy

* I am walking because I want to see a cure in my lifetime for the forms of hepatitis that destroy the liver. I am joining nephew, Darcy Deer's "Bilious Bunch," walking alongside his replacement organ donated four years ago by another nephew, Leif Allmendinger under the skillful and caring transplant team at Beth-Israel Deaconess. I assume (hope) such transplants will become minimal if not obsolete when this Magic Bullet is found through the research that these walks make possible. -Irmgard LaForge

* My husband had the opportunity to donate 1/2 of his liver to his father. Our family walks as a way to say thank you to all of those that raised money for research before us. Without them we would not be as lucky as we are today. – Karen Kenney

* I decided to walk after my father had been through a liver transplant at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston last July. When he was waiting for his liver I realized how many people need organ transplants and how blessed my father was to receive a liver. If more people raise money for research and become organ donors many more people in need will be able to live a longer healthier life. - Liz Moitoza

* Among a myriad of other reasons, but most importantly, I walk to raise monies and show support for the researchers and our supporters who are desperately searching for an answer to the compendium of liver diseases that cause such a compromised life style in those of us who are too well for a transplant and too ill for a full life. –Annie Lindahl

* I am walking in memory of my husband Jonathan. He courageously waited for 5 years at MGH, while in and out of trama units, endless blood and platelet transfusions, infections, and many broken bones to receive a liver. Again I offered, but mine was too small. He spent the last 9 months of his life there, only to die. I now volunteer in the transplant unit at MGH every Wednesday and Sunday. I love being with these patients, as they also give me so much strength. It has become my passion, I am glad I can get them to smile, take them out, get them tea etc. It means the world to me. – Nancy Murray

* To help the ALF grow, to expand patient support, to educate, to find a vaccine / cure. Annie Lindahl

* I'm walking to help raise money for a cure for Hep C, so my husband and I will be able to grow old together. – Rhonda McMann

* On behalf of the greatest Dad, my father Jimmy Admirand. –Ashley Admirand

* I walk because the advances in liver research allow me & my husband to celebrate two anniversaries each year.... our anniversary & our transplant anniversary. - Denise Gurshin

* I am walking for my brother (he's the best) and others who suffer everyday with liver disease...to find a cure. -Susan McMann Boff

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