I'll be running the Boston Marathon with BCH Miles for Miracles Team. 

I run for my youngest daughter Sadie Rose who has been a patient at BCH for more than 20 years. After an emotional day at BCH I told Sadie's Doctors at the BCH Pain Clinic that I would raise them One Million Dollars. We have been chipping away at the Million every year. Please consider a donation of any size and please share our story. 

How's Sadie? She is attending Lesley University and working part time at Starbucks. She makes her own appointments at BCH and keeps up with her procedures and medications. They won't allow me as the hospital "claims" she's an adult but my baby is only 22. LOL. The road is bumpy and has turns but she always moves forward. I use her power to keep running and fundraising. 

Every dollar I raise funds the very best medical care, breakthrough research under the direction of Sadie's Doctor, Pradeep Dinakar. 

Here is a short history of the Pain Clinic and Sadie's life would not be the same with out the Pain Clinic where She has benefitted from some of these trials.

In 1991, the Pain Treatment Center conducted the world's first randomized trial of patient-controlled analgesia in pediatrics. Children and adolescents who were allowed to control their own dosage of analgesia after major orthopedic surgery expressed less pain and greater satisfaction than patients receiving morphine administered intramuscularly. They were less sedated, as well. This groundbreaking trial paved the way for today's frequent use of patient-controlled analgesia worldwide.

Since then, the researchers and clinicians in the Pain Treatment Center have continued to drive the study and treatment of pain in children and adolescents. For example, we conducted the first preclinical and Phase 1 trials of neosaxitoxin, the first new pediatric local anesthetic in more than 60 years. Our investigators are also actively studying the effects of opioids and other analgesics in infants and children and researching the genetic underpinnings of different forms of chronic pain.

Thank you from the Bottom of Our Hearts,

Michael, Shannon, Hanna and Sadie