By Wanda Reddon, member After my cancer diagnosis in August 2015, my daughter Christina found Gilda’s Club Middle Tennessee on the Internet, and said “this looks like an interesting place, maybe we should check it out.” As Christina recalls, “Mom was feeling sad and depressed and unsure about her next steps to regains some normalcy…
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Get Ready for the Big Payback!
Gilda’s Club Middle Tennessee is participating in The Big Payback, an online giving day hosted by The Community Foundation of Middle TN. How does it work? For 24-hours beginning at 12:00 a.m. May 3rd, 2017, donors can make gifts to participating nonprofits like Gilda’s Club Middle Tennessee. This 24-hour online charitable giving day will help Gilda’s…
Read MoreGilda Gram, Spring 2017
In this issue: Cancer Support for the Whole Family: All Three Generations, News from Noogieland, Volunteer Spotlight: Michelle Wilkerson, A Message from our Board Chair Harriet Karro, and Riders in the Sky Entertain at Family Hoedown. View PDF.
Read MoreJoin Gilda Groupies. No Training Required.
If you would like to help Gilda’s Gang reach our team goal, but would prefer to sleep-in on Saturdays and not train for a 1/2 marathon, then Gilda Groupies is just for you! All Groupies pledge to raise $100 by race day to support our free member programs. Individuals build personal fundraising pages, host fundraisers, and utilize…
Read MoreSupport for the Whole Family
By Heather Parham, member To date, I am a six time survivor of a rare cancer called Metastatic Myxoid Vulvar Sarcoma. I have had chemo several times, radiation once of a brain tumor and again on my chest for my lung, and too many surgeries to mention. When I was first diagnosed in 1993, Gilda’s…
Read MoreGene Wilder Dies at 83
It’s a sad day for Gilda’s Club Middle Tennessee, and all other Gilda’s Club affiliates. One of our co-founders, Gene Wilder died today from complications from Alzheimer’s. Gene’s love for his late wife, Gilda Radner, drove his dedication to open the first Gilda’s Club in New York City in 1995 with the help of Gilda’s pyschotherapist, Joanna…
Read MoreMeet Our New Executive Director
A welcome note from Gilda’s Club Middle Tennessee Executive Director, Sandy Obodzinski: When I moved to Nashville from the Midwest in 2005, I never imagined that my personal and professional worlds were preparing me for this moment with Gilda’s Club Middle Tennessee. Like you, my life has been touched by cancer. After just three years…
Read MoreJaney Street & Friends Performs for Benefit of Gilda’s Club Nashville
Janey Street performed to a full house last week at City Winery Nashville in support of her new album, My Side of Paradise available now on Blue Élan Records. The show opened, as many Nashville gigs do, with a roundtable of eminently talented singer-songwriters sharing their most recent compositions as well as their biggest hits. The night…
Read MoreVolunteer for Life
By Chuck Beard, volunteer This year, if my math doesn’t fail me, marks my sixth year as a running coach for Gilda’s Gang. I don’t consider myself a coach or a runner so saying that out loud or writing that here feels funny to me. I’m just a regular guy who likes to jog to…
Read MoreTaking Care of Caregivers at Gilda’s Club
By Caitlyn Holland, member I wasn’t one of those girls who had been planning her wedding day since she was seven, but I knew what I wanted. At our age, Pete and I had been to enough weddings to know what we liked and didn’t, and of the two of us, I’m the type-A, agenda-toting…
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