Tina Hunter| FIGHTING CANCER Together…
FIGHTING CANCER Together… one Easy String at a time!
Fighting Cancer Together!
We are all affected by cancer. We as breakaway ropers are all women so we never know if breast cancer will personally affect us. That and we all know someone who has been affected by Breast Cancer. We have to fight together.
Pink Easy String for Breast Cancer Research (October) $60
Purple Easy String for Pancreatic Cancer Research ( November) $60
Gold Easy String for Childhood Cancer Research (December) $60
We are all here on this earth to make it better for others and ourselves.
$10 from each of those Easy strings sold will go to their individual research, and in the LOOP is going to match that with $10! So a total of $20 for each purchase of an Easy String will be donated to Huntsmans Cancer Institute for research. Huntsmans uses 100% of the donation for research
https://healthcare.utah.edu/huntsmancancerinstitute/foundation/ways-to-give
Attention ALL Breakaway Ropers!
Easy String is a breakaway ropers dream come true! It keeps everything nice, clean, simple, and best of all it FITS in your rope can!
Tina Hunter grew up in Southern Idaho and has roped her whole life, from breakaway to team roping throughout her high school rodeo career, and into college! Post College Rodeo Tina left with her education in Radiographic Science. Alongside her husband Wyatt, and their three children, Hallie, Heston and Hannah, rodeo is a lifestyle that their whole family lives!
Through the chaos of life, children, and breakaway roping, Tina wanted to control the chaos of trying to hunt down breakaway strings, and therefore she created a solution… The Easy String! Tina said, “I Hated the mess in my can, hated that my roll did not fit nicely in my can. As my kids started roping my knife kept disappearing, and my string roll got messier and more tangled. String started getting unrolled in the trailer. So I found a solution!”
Although we love breakaway roping, Tina and I are teaming up together to fight Cancer!
We are all here on this earth to make it better for others and ourselves.
“I want to return what our family received.
My mother in law was diagnosed with Stage 4 Pancreatic cancer in August of 2016. They discovered it when she had a routine ultrasound for her gallbladder and the cancer was spread into the liver. She actually had a CT in April of 2016 for some Shortness of Breath she had experienced all that spring while she was in Texas at the spring rodeos. The pancreas was visualized in that CT but there was no cancer that could be seen with diagnostic imaging present at that time.
Research is the answer to diagnose and detect cancer earlier.
Nancy was in a trial for pancreatic cancer because she was the perfect patient. No history of Drugs, Alcohol, or being Overweight and she was active. They actually were treating her with a drug that they have success with in Breast cancer and were hoping to see if it would be successful in Pancreatic Cancer. It didn't work for Nancy. But we don't know what they learned from Nancy that will help others.
My brother in law also had cancer as a child he had Juvenile Hodgkin's Lymphoma at age 11
That is why Nancy started the Glitter Like Gold Campaign at the NFR in 2015.
Brett Le Blanc Photo