Join Jerry Dinner: August 22

We have the details for the Join Jerry dinner, and we hope you all can come.

We are so grateful to friends and family who have handled all the plans for us while we were taking care of our beloved Papa. The date is August 22, 6:00 pm, at the Brownstone. 351 West Broadway, Paterson, NJ. Family style dinner. DJ. Unlimited beer, wine, soda! That's right, unlimited...

$65 per ticket before August 16. $75 after. To purchase tickets, please send checks to Diane Makoujy, 9 Columbus Ave., Totowa, NJ 07512.

xoxo

Arrangements for Papa

http://festamemorial.com/obituary_view/73832

Good bye, Papa

Our beloved father, Damiano Senatore, passed away. He was a devoted family man, and I miss his quiet strength and boundless love already. Throughout his hospital stay, Dad wore his relentless bracelet for his son. Jerry now wears it in dad's honor. Relentless, the both of them.

Mike and Kenny

We have two new committee members for the Join Jerry Dinner, Jerry's good buddies Mike Nicusanti and Kenny Cooke. They are going to help with the planning. Jerry's going to wish he could come to this...

Save the Date: August 22 Join Jerry Dinner

Jerry's godmother, Aunt Connie, is organizing a Join Jerry Dinner event to be held on August 22 at the Brownstone in Paterson, NJ (a familiar site to those of you who are fans of the "Housewives of NJ"). We have set up a committee to help her in the planning: Diane, Anna, Ro, Lu and me. I don't know what I'm doing, but I am being led by people who do! Thank God. Save the date! We hope it will be a PV reunion of sorts, as well as a family reunion, a friend reunion, and just a fun way to support Jerry. (Note to cohorts of Jerry: yes, there will be beer.) More info to follow.

Excerpt from a Text Convo

Me: Heard you sent mom flowers for Mother's Day. You are a show off.

Jerry: No, sending flowers makes me a suck up. Beating cancer will make me a show off.

Me: Fine then go show off ...

T-shirts and wristbands

Thanks to everyone for the t-shirt orders. I ran out of a few sizes and placed a new order, which will arrive on Saturday. I'll ship them out right after that. The red relentless bracelets are showing up everywhere I look. They are available at the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society web site and support research for a cure.
http://www.leukemia.org/all_toplevel.adp?item_id=4189

Hoyas join Jerry

I went to a U Conn vs Georgetown tennis match recently. It was a tough match, and I was concentrating on the play when I noticed one of the Gtown girls, Vicky, was wearing a red "relentless" bracelet, the same one pictured on our JoinJerry2010 site and the one that Jerry has been wearing. I looked around and noticed that Vicky's doubles partner that day, Elizabeth, wore a bracelet too. Then I scanned all the Gtown girls, those on the court and those watching. Everyone had a bracelet. I was moved and mentioned this to Michelle, who sported her own bracelet and then asked me look at the Gtown coach. He had one too. So did some of the fans in the crowd who were watching and many of the swimmers who I saw later in the day at a banquet. Many of these athletes don't know Jerry personally but are moved by his story. Hoya Saxa.

Happy Birthday, Jer

Carpe Diem....xoxo

Facebook, wow

After Kristen set up the Join Jerry page on Facebook, she invited all her Facebook friends, one of whom is her godfather, Uncle Jerry. She apologized for not letting him know sooner of her plans. (She knew he'd understand; they are both relentless.) He responded by posting the story of his past two years battling cancer. To date, there are more than 90 Join Jerry fans on Facebook, many of whom are friends of Kristen and her sister Michelle. Recently, I have recognized the names of Jerry's friends and neighbors too. It's been an amazing week....