PJ Richards
4  year  Mo Bro

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Target: $1,000
raised $12,053 since 2020
My motivation
Fundraising for cause areas including:
Men's health
Prostate cancer
Testicular cancer
Mental health and suicide prevention

Hello all,
My name is PJ! I am going to start by saying thanks for all the on going support and I am happy to share I have officially hit 3 years with no detectable cancer on Oct 29th.

I am here to share my story and cancer journey through stage 2 testicular cancer in case it may help anyone else. My main goal is to bring awareness and more importantly to be someone that others can feel free to reach out to if they should ever have questions or need someone to talk to.

I was diagnosed with testicular cancer (Seminoma) back in the spring of 2019 and had a Radical Orchiectomy to remove my left testicle in May 2019. We continued monitoring after surgery and unfortunately, that was not the end of the cancer battle for me. In June 2020 the cancer presented again on a scan. We continued to monitor and did another scan in August and found that the lymph node had grown from 1.2cm to 1.7cm since June. I opted to try another surgery and went in for a retroperitoneal lymph node dissection (RPLND) on October 29th 2020 where I had 20 lymph nodes removed from the back of my abdomen close to my spine.

I want to say thanks to all my family, friends, doctors, nurses and everyone else who has helped and supported me with my journey so far. The support has been overwhelming and amazing! I just wanted to share my journey and work with Movember to help as many others as I can and as always encourage people to not hesitate getting checked out if they ever feel any irregularities!
http://bit.ly/bitsNboobs

I’m cold dipping for a minimum of 60 minutes this Movember for the 60 men we lose each hour of every day. I have found that cold dips have really helped me with a number of things both mentally and physically but mainly with lymphatic drainage. I dealt with frequent swollen lymph nodes after having a large number removed. The swelling has basically been non existent since doing daily ice baths/cold dips!

Testicular cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in young men. Movember is working to halve the number of deaths from testicular cancer by 2030, and I want to help them get there. Help me stop men dying too young.

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Fantasy Hockey Fights Cancer
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I'm cold dipping for a minimum of 60 minutes this Movember for the 60 men we lose each hour of every day. minimum of 2 min a day for 30 days.
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Previous year's posts
16 Week(s) Ago
Donation from:
Pat Richards
$100

Love you PJ
Mom & Dad xx

Previous year's donations
16 Week(s) Ago
Donation from:
Pat Richards
$100

Love you PJ
Mom & Dad xx

Previous year's activities
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Nov 30th final cold dip! Thanks to all who donated and followed along

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Nov 30th final cold dip! Thanks to all who donated and followed along

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Donation from:
an anonymous supporter
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Donation from:
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Nov 29th cold dip. 1 more to go!

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Miranda Devries
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Donation from:
Markian Hornich
$100

Pj, love ya bud. Thanks for all your energy towards the cause over the years. Hope to see you soon

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Donation from:
Markian Hornich
$100

Pj, love ya bud. Thanks for all your energy towards the cause over the years. Hope to see you soon

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Jackson Avio
$50

You are killing it Bro ! Nice work :)

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Jackson Avio
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You are killing it Bro ! Nice work :)

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Nancy Cunningham
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Nancy Cunningham
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Nov 20th cold dip

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Nov 20th cold dip

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Devon Choma
$50

Great work bud!

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Devon Choma
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Great work bud!

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Dustin Au
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Dustin Au
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Mathieu Gosselin
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Keep on Keeping KarlssOn, oh Captain my Captain

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Nov 18th cold dip

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Bobby Wheatley
$40

Had to push it $1 over the target.

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Dana Eye
$20
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Aisling O'Doherty
$50

You have our support! Stay cool!

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Facebook Fundraising
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Carol Helmers
$50
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Nov 17th cold dip

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Nov 16th cold dip

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Donation from:
an anonymous supporter
$50

Way to go PJ!

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Nov 15th cold dip. Half way there!

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Brady McLeod
$25
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Mathew Alkerton
$50

❤️

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Nov 14th cold dip

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Harrison Bolger-Munro
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Nov 13

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Nov 11 cold dip

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First of all thanks so much to everyone we have raised over $4500 together for a very important cause.
I am sitting in the doctors office about to get my 40 staples out. Everything is progressing well!

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