Check Presentation to Hope Lives at Fort Collins Dodge Today!

Today, we finish our Breast Cancer Awareness Month push by helping to present a check from Fort Collins Dodge to Hope Lives.

Hope Lives lifts some of the stress from overburdened shoulders.

For those going through breast cancer treatment, the load is heavy. I don't have experience with it, but I'd bet it could feel overwhelming.

There is no answer for the uncertainty. There are few ways to calm the fears.

For those that want to help, though, there is a way. The entire world goes pink in October, but showing that color doesn't really help that much. People are trusting the big breast cancer organizations less and less as time moves on. In Northern Colorado, we are lucky, because we have Hope Lives.

In a situation where there isn't much you can do to help, Lydia Dody has figured out a way that you can. She has set up services that make people dealing with breast cancer feel better. The positive light Hope Lives shines on breast cancer patients may be the thing that helps them through it. It may be the like the person who removes a few pieces of straw from the proverbial camel's back, so that it doesn't break.

Hope Lives provides these services.

Acupuncture
Chiropractic
Counseling
Exercise
Hair and Wig Care
Home Help
Healing Touch
Massage
Music Therapy
Naturopathic Medicine
Nutrtion Counseling
Prepare for Surgery
Quantum Energetics
Reiki
Reflexology
Yoga

Each client of Hope Lives receives a few of these services per time period. The people providing the services offer them at discounted rates, but are still paid.

That's what a donation to Hope Lives does. It pays the people that provide the services to the clients of Hope Lives, and pays the operating costs of the small but impactful organization.

Lydia never wanted people to have to provide services for free. With breast cancer patients in need, providers probably could have been found that would donate services, but it's much more sustainable and feels better to everyone when people are paid what they deserve. These providers are vetted and have to live up to a standard, which most of them reach effortlessly because they have a magical touch that makes them a perfect fit for Hope Lives.

Fort Collins Dodge is presenting the check. They are donating $100 from each vehicle they sold during October to Hope Lives. Check back here for the final number (which I think will be around or over $10,000), and to check out Paul's Periscopes from the event.