WILMINGTON, MA — Wilmington resident Nicolle Renick, a leading fundraiser for Team End Alz, an athletic program for the Alzheimer’s Association, is getting ready to tackle the 2018 Boston Marathon on April 16.
This is Renick’s fifth time running the Boston Marathon, a challenge she excitedly accepted to honor the ongoing fight her father, Gary, who was diagnosed with the disease when he was just 57 years old. In the spring of 2014, Gary’s caretaker and twin sister was diagnosed with Lymphoma and could no longer take care of him. She passed later that year, so Renick moved her father to be with her in Massachusetts.
Although Alzheimer’s is robbing Renick and family of happier memories with her father in the later stages of his diagnosis, she continues to fight.
“This past year has been especially challenging for him and for us, as he has gone through the biggest decline,” Renick said. “His struggles are why I have decided to run and dedicate my fifth Boston Marathon with Team End Alz to him. I want there to be a cure so that nobody’s family ever has to deal with this awful disease.”
Thanks to her family, especially her wife, Janice, Renick has had the support to fight Alzheimer’s and take on the challenge of running the Boston Marathon again.
″[My wife] has been an incredible support to me and my father throughout everything he has gone through, and a terrific advocate for Alzheimer’s awareness,” said Renick, who has raised over $7,000 so far for this years Boston Marathon in support of the Alzheimer’s Association, MA/NH Chapter.
(NOTE: The above press release first appeared in the Wilmington Advocate.)
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