Comment for a Cause (C4AC) is back for it’s 4th year. C4AC is my way to raises funds & awareness. This year I’ve picked BC Children’s Hospital as my charity of choice. Each comment this site gets equals $1 that I will be donating at the end of the month.. Don’t forget to keep up to date by subscribing to my rss feed

Around mid season last year, I noticed my left shoulder was acting up more so then it ever has, I wasn’t sure if it was because of the years of paddling abuse and or from the type of work I do. And the stubborn/stupid me instead of seeing someone about it, I just took it easy by paddling on the left side instead of paddling on both as well gave up paddling outrigger for a while (as you paddle on both sides). Though once season ended I took time off from our winter paddling season to focus on my shoulder. Some days I’d rather deal with 38+ hours of labour again then deal with a deep tissue massage in the arm pit area.

It’s already been a few weeks into the 2011 season and I’ve been taking it slow which is a challenge for me and my coaches .. They rather have me near the front/middle of the boat but I’d rather be in the back so if I have to stop I can. Plus I LOVE the fast water that the back half always gets .. We have a race coming up which is mostly for newbies and for teams to work out the off season kinks. My goal this regatta is to use it as a trail run since they are only 200metre spirits instead of the normal 500metre races.

Til then I’m waiting for the day were there is no more pain and don’t have to ice my armpit/shoulder/arm anymore..

It doesn’t seem like it should be April already but it is… Which only means one thing that Comment for a cause is back for another year.

What is Comment for a Cause or C4AC (for short) you may ask? Well about four years ago I wanted challenge myself to write daily since at that time I was writing every other day or every few days. I also wanted to donate some money to a charity but I didn’t really know how much so give so putting those two ideas together and formed Comment for a Cause were every comment this site gets though out April will equal $1 and be donated to a charity of choice.

This year I’ve picked BC Children’s Hospital. As we’ve all known someone or have been that someone who has been at a children hospital at one point in our life.