For those of you who have sponsored me for the MS Walk, thank you. Between my friends, family, coworkers, and blog readers, I have raised about $3100 for this year’s walk, putting me more than $100 over my $3000 goal.

As of tonight, the night before the walk, I am the #10 individual fundraiser for the Boston walk, and that makes me feel pretty damn good.

If you’d still like to sponsor me, please do. You can do so here.

If you haven’t sponsored me for the MS Walk yet, you can do so here.

I’m registered to walk for the 2008 MS Walk. You can sponsor me by clicking here.

The 2007 Boston MS Walk will be held on Saturday, April 29. My goal this year is to raise $3000.

Stay tuned for details.

The MS Walk is an emotional event for me. It is every year, and I’m not sure why. I go into the event telling myself that it’s not about the walk, but rather about raising money for research and services. And every year, it overwhelms me. I just get so choked up seeing all of these people, walkers and volunteers, who are there to help raise money to cure a disease that I have. It’s emotional.

The pre-walk festivities were kicked off by Fast Freddie of Boston’s Mix 98.5. He knows how to get a crowd warmed up.

Next came Anthony Everett and Mary Richardson of Boston’s WCVB-TV5. She was okay, but he was outstanding. This man is passionate about finding a cure for MS. He speaks from the heart because his mother had MS.

The last big part of the event was MS Lifelines Ambassador Carrie Smith who told the story of being diagnosed with MS when her daughter was only eleven months old. Then she sang a song. It was hard to find a dry eye in the crowd. Her song about finding her lifeline was emotional, and beautiful.

The walk was three miles around Boston and Cambridge, and it was cold and miserable. For the first few blocks, I found myself walking beside Mr. Everett from Channel 5. Most TV personalities seem to be condescending when you talk to them one-on-one. Anthony Everett was the exact opposite. He wanted to hear about my MS story. He was a genuinely nice person. Anyway,  I did the complete three mile walk and came back to Boston Common for lunch.

While I was waiting to hear the results of the walk (1400 walkers raising over $400,000), I got a chance to talk to Carrie Smith, the musician. She was so genuine and so sweet. I bet we talked for fifteen minutes. I gave her my e-mail address, and I hope to hear from her soon. I offered to help her set up her website so she could start publishing a blog. I hope she’ll take me up on the offer.

It was a good day. We raised a lot of money for a good cause. Next year, I’m going to raise the bar. My goal is to raise $2000 for the Boston MS Walk and another $500 for the Manhattan MS Walk. I want to do the MS Walk in two different cities next year. I got a lot of money from our New York office, and I have a friend from New York whose dad has MS. I’d like to do the walk with him if he’s interested.

The MS Walk is done. Collectively, 1400 people raised $400,000 today. That’s an awful lot of money. I took a bunch of pictures that I’ll have to post.

It really was an amazing day, but it was cold and miserable. That didn’t stop us though.  I’ll have pictures and the story soon.

As of today’s tally, to date, I’ve raised $1745 for the 2006 Boston MS Walk. I simply can’t express my gratitutde to those of you who have sponsored me. My goal of $2000 was sky high, and I didn’t think I’d come anywhere close to reaching it. But I set my goals high and have not been disappointed.