Race Against Stomach Cancer | iDSC118

The 1st Annual Race Against Stomach Cancer Please join us for the 1st Annual Race Against Stomach Cancer - 5Ks of Hope!  The date is Sunday, November 11th and the scenic location is the Santa Fe Dam Recreation Area in Irwindale.  Everyone is encouraged to attend. You can run a timed race or you can walk at your own leisurely pace.  Strollers are even welcome so please bring the whole family and help us raise awareness and funds to fight stomach cancer. Click here to sign-up for the 1st Annual 5Ks of Hope Click play below to listen to my talk with Irasema Partida a stomach cancer survivor.  Irasema is also part of the 501(c)3 non-profit organization, I co-founded and is hosting on The Race Against Stomach Cancer.  Please do join us - we need your help!  Spread the word!   ***Transcript*** Recording date – September 9, 2018, in Fontana, CA 5Ks of Hope Irasema Partida: Beautiful setting. Nice lake in the middle and you have the option to do the 5K, you can walk, run, bring your kids with you. Strollers are okay. We are just looking forward to bringing awareness to an amazing cause and celebrating all the warriors out there. "...Veteran's are a big piece of the stomach cancer world... Veterans are exposed to a bacteria called H. Pylori." Tom Smith: Welcome to iDriveSoCal. All about mobility from the automotive capital of the United States. Southern California-i-a. Tom Smith here, and I am joined by Irasema Partida for this iDriveSoCal podcast.  Irasema, thank you for joining me. Irasema Partida: Thank you.   5Ks of Hope - Race Against Stomach Cancer Date: Sunday, November 11th Start time: 8:30AM Location: Santa Fe Damn Recreation Area Irwindale, CA Everyone is welcome! Please Click Here to Register Now!   Tom Smith: Irasema is a stomach cancer survivor. And if you've been listening to the podcast, you know that stomach cancer is a near and dear disease to my family. My father-in-law is a survivor, excuse me, my father-in-law is a survivor, as well. He was diagnosed in 2013, my wife got him through the disease and as a way to pay forward that blessing of still having my father-in-law with us, we started the organization called 'Hope for Stomach Cancer'. Irasema is also a stomach cancer survivor and the purpose of this podcast is to promote. To get you, please do, come on out on November 11th to the Santa Fe Dam Recreation Area Dam recreation area. Where we are going to be hosting our first annual, 5K's of Hope- Race Against Stomach Cancer. So we're going to be doing the old 5K thing. It's going to be timed. You can run it. You can walk it. There's going to be a mile option, but it's going to be again Sunday, November 11th. 5K on Veteran's Day Tom Smith: Now, Sunday, November 11th, also happens to be- Irasema Partida: Veteran's Day. Tom Smith: Veteran's Day. And Irasema is a young, Hispanic woman. She's a stomach cancer survivor. My father-in-law is more of a stereotypical stomach cancer survivor and that's a 71-year-old man. Now, this is a very deadly disease, so survivor is a big, big deal in the world of this disease. But it used to be just older people. Now it's really proliferated too, unfortunately, all ages. Irasema Partida: Right. Tom Smith: All ethnicities. Irasema Partida: Not discriminate. "You can live a pretty darn normal life without a stomach. And that's surprising as all get out to lots of people." Tom Smith: And veteran's are a big piece of the stomach cancer world, as well. Part of the theory on that is that veterans are exposed to a,