Benefit Obstacle Challenge & Benefit Trail Ride

Welcome Home Dad!

I missed you and so did all your friends. They're having two Benefit Events to help you out.

Your buddies can click on the links below for information and registration.

Benefit Obstacle Challenge - April 9

Benefit Trail Ride - April 16

Benefit Trail Ride for Mike

LARA & NFAHC are hosting a benefit trail ride for Mike Woodard. The ride will be April 16th at Jennings Forest. Cost is $15 per rider and includes lunch. The host clubs are donating food and Jennings Forest has waived the $2 use fee to help our cause. Please RSVP to khladyfish@comcast.net if you would like to participate. You don't have to pay in advance, this is just to plan for food purchases. If you don't want to ride, but would like to volunteer to help on the day of the ride, please contact Jim Will or Lisa. There will also be a silent auction, so if you have any gently used items that you would like to donate for the auction, please bring them with you so we can display them for bidding.

Another way you can help is to donate blood for Mike. He has an account with the FL-GA Blood Alliance. You can log on to www.igiveblood.com and donate in his name (acct #0190.) Thank you for helping out!

Get Well Soon

Club member Mike Woodard has been diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia. This has been a shock for friends and family, as Mike is otherwise healthy and spends all of his spare time being active and enjoying horses. Mike was admitted at OPMC Feb 15th and has received a week-long treatment of chemotherapy which will hopefully kill all of the bad cells. A bone marrow biopsy will be performed 3/7 to find out if the treatment worked. Mike has to remain in the hospital as he is receiving daily blood transfusions and he has no immune system. The doctors are hopeful that this single treatment of chemo will bring him into remission.

Thanks to all our friends and neighbors who have given up portions of their lives to help out at the farm. The horses and dogs hardly know that anything is different, other than new people are bringing them dinner and playing with them! Thanks for the flowers and food and love and prayers. We are truly blessed to have such a good group of people in our lives.

If anyone is a blood donor, you can donate in Mike's name and it gives him a credit on his blood account. He may also need a bone marrow transplant, so if you have any extra bone marrow, remember Mike!

For blood donations go to http://www.igiveblood.com/ and his account number is 0190.