On Behalf of the Gary Courtney Cancer Awareness Foundation
Happy New Year.
May your 2016 be filled with hope, love, laughter and life.
May we find a cure for all cancers in 2016!
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
Wednesday, December 23, 2015
Merry Christmas From the Gary Courtney Cancer Awareness Foundation
On behalf of the Gary Courtney Cancer Awareness Foundation, we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year filled with hope, health and cures for all cancers.
God Bless.
Saturday, December 5, 2015
Colon Cancer Alliance Fundraiser in 2016
https://www.facebook.com/events/153468121675222/
The Gary Courtney Cancer Foundation is extending their hearts once again to help the Colon Cancer Alliance. Our March 12th, 2016 event is in memorial of April's Grandfather Smith, my father-in-law Robert Smith and in honor of survivor Annette Smith (my mother-in-law).
Badass Spirit Outlaws (BSO) is sponsoring a paranormal investigation to help raise funds and awareness for CCA. BSO is one of the best paranormal investigation groups in Utah and I am proud to be a member.
Follow the link for tickets and information. Tickets are $25 for a night of fright and fun. A raffle will be held with Utah's Own Items, paranormal gear, handmade items and everything imaginable. Get your gift certificates and surprise someone that has always wanted to go on an investigation.
More info to follow closer to the event.
Update on Gary Courtney:
Gary is looking FINE! He is in partial remission and we are so proud of him. It has been almost a year to the day of this writing that he was diagnosed with lung cancer spreading to other areas of his body. Today he looks better than ever and was able to participate in our LLS walk. I personally want to thank Gary for letting me use this blog to help others.
Gary's foundation has helped Sandy Arnette Marsh, Hope for Hillary, and the LLS foundation. This foundation will continue to raise funds for cancer awareness as long as there is a need. Let us hope and pray that need comes quickly.
Happy Holidays and a Bright New Year to all of you from Gary, his family and myself.
Cat Smith
Badass Spirit Outlaws (BSO) is sponsoring a paranormal investigation to help raise funds and awareness for CCA. BSO is one of the best paranormal investigation groups in Utah and I am proud to be a member.
Follow the link for tickets and information. Tickets are $25 for a night of fright and fun. A raffle will be held with Utah's Own Items, paranormal gear, handmade items and everything imaginable. Get your gift certificates and surprise someone that has always wanted to go on an investigation.
More info to follow closer to the event.
Update on Gary Courtney:
Gary is looking FINE! He is in partial remission and we are so proud of him. It has been almost a year to the day of this writing that he was diagnosed with lung cancer spreading to other areas of his body. Today he looks better than ever and was able to participate in our LLS walk. I personally want to thank Gary for letting me use this blog to help others.
Gary's foundation has helped Sandy Arnette Marsh, Hope for Hillary, and the LLS foundation. This foundation will continue to raise funds for cancer awareness as long as there is a need. Let us hope and pray that need comes quickly.
Happy Holidays and a Bright New Year to all of you from Gary, his family and myself.
Cat Smith
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
LLS Walk the Night 2015! We Walked it for Gary Courtney and Catheryn Ireland - and Everyone with Cancer
We Did It! We Walked the Walk! We Don't Just Talk the Talk! LLS 2016 Here We Come!
Thursday, September 17, 2015
Fundraiser for LLS - Amazon E-Cards for Donations! Dancing in the Moonlight for Gary Courtney and Catheryn Ireland
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| LLS Walk Fundraiser |
Donate from now until September 30th and get an Amazon E-Card! Donate $5 and get a $2 Amazon card. Donate $10 and get a $5 Amazon E-Card. Donate $25 and get a $10 Amazon E-Card. Just click the button to the right. Please add your email to your message at Paypal Check out. If no additional email is provided, your Amazon E-Card will go to the Paypal email address provided in your account. All E-Cards will be issued within 48 hours.
Check out the other promotions we have for donating to LLS Light the Night Walk. Please help us help others. Bless you.
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
“Dancing in the Moonlight for Gary Courtney and Catheryn Ireland” LLS Walk October 10th 2015
We are going to get our groove on at the annual LLS Light the Night Walk. Funding goes
to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. All money goes towards research, care of
victims and public consciousness of these two devastating diseases.
I would like to introduce our newest member of the Gary Courtney Cancer Awareness Team. Catheryn
Ireland. She is a lovely woman who found out this year she has leukemia. I will
let Catheryn introduce herself in her own words.
God, Catheryn, and CLL
March 6, 2015, it was a beautiful day, the sun beat down, I had the radio on, I was a flying!! Oh wait that is a Tom Petty song. The sun was shining, the grass was green, but we don't have orange and palm trees here, so it was a beautiful Murray Utah day. I had come from the Memorial for an awesome, Godly woman at church who had passed away from ovarian cancer. Not only is her story an awesome one, but her memorial was God-filled AWESOME!! It was definitely a Holy Spirit filled day! The band played at her request the LIVELY version a-k-a Pentecostal style of “I’ll fly away”. The banjo & guitar were playing hard while we clapped to the beating drum. I think I was stomping my feet, ready to flap my arms, man, I was ready to fly!! I was clapping, and ready to get caught up in the air when the Holy Spirit poured out on me. WHAT A WONDERFUL FEELING!! The room was filled with the presence of the Holy Spirit. As the song came to an end, and with so much excitement in my heart I left to learn about my own fate. As I departed I said to myself "now it's my turn". My girlfriend Laurie Jensen said a quick prayer for me and I was off.
My Oncologist,
a beautiful woman of Bosnian descent, gave me the news that I have CLL; Chronic
Lymphocytic Leukemia; a slow progressing type of cancer of the
blood and bone marrow. As I sat there silently taking this in, I was
STILL and so comforted that the Holy Spirit
was with me. Dr. Boric gently said “Please don’t be afraid.” I said with a very
clear voice: “I’m not afraid.” Not
knowing of her beliefs I said to myself “because GOD has this!!” I learned again
that day that God is infinitely awesome! Because I WAS OKAY, I AM OKAY!! God has this!
This past February, my regular Doctor referred me to an Oncologist to
check my blood because I had severely swollen lymph nodes. She said it
could be Leukemia. I called my
sister Melissa Lenhardt and told her what Dr. Lee said. Right away she started
praying for me. Melissa is the ultimate
Prayer Warrior! She prayed in a way that
really uplifted my soul that February day. As she prayed she started crying, naturally
I cried too. She said “Sis don’t be afraid, the Holy Spirit put it
on my heart that you are going to be okay.”
Okay doesn’t mean that I will be free from cancer. I am not free, but I
am FREE of the chains that bind me!! God
help me! HALLELUJAH!! Thank-you Jesus! My
Father is KING JESUS, and I am the daughter of Alfred and Lillian Martinez who
raised me to be a fighter for a cause, to not give up, and to not take
crap!! I will do what I can in this
fight against Leukemia to win souls for Christ and to fight a good fight in His
glorious name!!
Tuesday, August 4, 2015
Family Would Like to Donate Funds to Help Another
http://www.anythingforafriend.org/events/DinnerRegistration.aspx?eventID=60
Saturday, August 1, 2015
Gary Courtney Lung Cancer Awareness Bracelets
Gary Courtney is my daughter-in-law's, April Courtney Barrett (pictured with Gary) father. His battle has been long, painful and finally rewarding. Gary's cancer has been responding after several chemotherapy and radiation treatments. We know our warrior Gary will continue to fight this battle for his wife Sheila, children April, Carrie Reed, and Jason Courtney. His grandchildren, friends, and family. I am honored to be a small part of this campaign.
Facebook posts from April Courtney Barrett about her father's fight:
Please send prayers to my dad he had
major surgery today we found out Dec. 12 that my dad has cancer in his lymph
nodes
All I want for Christmas is my dad
to be healthy and cancer free
My dad got released to come home
today from the hospital
I went to my parent’s house today
and spent time with my dad and took care of him so my mom could get some sleep.
Please continue to pray for my dad he is still in a lot of pain frown
emoticon his appointment is Tuesday to find out his results and I think
he will get his staples out also, please pray that everything goes well and
that his results come back good. Thank you to everyone who has been praying for
him.
Just a little update on my dad he's
having surgery tomorrow to get his port put in and then we will find out
tomorrow when he starts chemo. Again I want to thank everyone for all your love
and support and prayers it means a lot thank you.
I agree and thank you for all of you
who are praying for my dad and our family thank you so much it means a lot.
March 25 ·
Thank you to everyone who has been
praying for my dad PLEASE continue praying for him, HE has a pet scan next week
to see if the chemo is working please pray that it's working and that the
cancer is shrinking.
April 29 ·
Patrick
Barrett and I are running for the cure this is for you dad/ Gary
Courtney and my kids God mother Penny
Judson she's a breast cancer survivor love you both.
May 11 ·
My birthday wish came true the
surgery was a success he can talk again but the Dr doesn't want him to talk for
the next two days because of the surgery. I just came from my parent’s house
and as we were leaving I gave My dad a hug and in my ear he said Happy Birthday
April I love you, I started crying. This is been the best birthday ever,
getting to hear my dad's voice again was the best birthday gift ever smile
emoticon thank you so much to everyone who has been praying for my dad
THANK YOU. Now we continue praying that his cancer goes away.
May 11 ·
Praying for a successful surgery for
my dad today.
May 9 ·
We did it! We ran for the cure, and
ran the whole race it was awesome and very emotional for me. I ran for my dad Gary
Courtney and my mom who is a survivor she had melanoma and Penny
Judson My kids godmother who's a survivor of breast cancer I love
you three so much. Thank you to my awesome husband for running with me I love
you
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