Name: 2021 Pikes Peak Challenge Virtual Challenger: Cynthia Molloy
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I’m raising money on behalf of the Brain Injury Alliance of Colorado’s ongoing mission to improve the lives of those affected by an injury to the brain. For over 35 years, this organization has dedicated itself to the brain injury community and now I’m lending my support to their cause, and I hope you’ll join me. The Brain Injury Alliance of Colorado (BIAC) is the go-to resource for help and services for survivors of an injury to the brain, their families, and providers.

Survivors of a brain injury must fight through unimaginable mental and physical challenges. There isn’t a cure for brain injuries; they don’t grow back like hair or fade like scars. While no two brain injuries are the same, they do have a few things in common. They are always present and dealing with the effects is a lifelong, day-in-day-out process. They require brain injury survivors to navigate in a brand-new world as they fight to establish a new normal.

Funding is critical for BIAC to continue supporting survivors in our state, which is why I am reaching out to family and friends to share my exciting commitment to participate in the 2021 Pikes Peak Challenge Virtual Challenge. Although I’m not able to be in attendance on the day of the event, I would like to lend a hand of support and take on a hike or walk of my own.

To reach my goal, I need your help. Please consider donating to help me reach my fundraising goal of $200. (or more!) Check out my donation page to make a contribution or to learn more about BIAC.

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Cynthia Molloy September 9, 2021

Posted on facebook by my daughter Bridget:

When I was 7 years old my Mom, Cynthia Molloy, hit black ice and was hit by a semi truck on the driver side and found unconscious at the scene. It was a blizzard on that Valentines Day night when my Dad got the phone call that she was in critical condition at the ER and had suffered a severe traumatic brain injury. I remember seeing her some days later, her face puffy and bloody still and pieces of glass still coming out of her skin. When my Dad first visited she was in restraints fighting and screaming, her body in fight or flight mode having no idea what had happened. Three of her brothers, my uncles whom I never got to meet, died in car accidents. While she escaped the accident alive, she has lived a long journey of brain injury recovery that greatly impacted both her life and our family emotionally and financially.
For years my Mom struggled with extreme fatigue, short term memory loss, comprehension of new information, being able to fall asleep and sleeping through the night, irritability, confusion, difficulty concentrating and working….the list goes on. Each year 200,000 people in the US suffer a severe brain injury.
Luckily, my Mom is the most determined, hard working person with the deepest perseverance I have known. The Doctors never thought she would be able to work again. Yet, over the last 26 years, my Mom has overcome an incredible amount of adversity, improving year after year. For the first 4 years, she strived to push herself and prove that she could still work. About 7 years ago she finally was able to go back to work nearly full time. Currently she has returned to working part time and is consistently taking courses to challenge her brain and learn new skills in her field as a Physical Therapist. When I think about what she has overcome, what happened so long ago and the impacts that her accident and brain injury still have today on her today, I am in awe of her strength, optimism, and lookout on life.
Many people, my Mom included, have struggled not only with their own mental/physical challenges as a direct result of a brain injury. Their jobs, family, relationships, intimacy, finances, emotional well-being, behavioral changes and more I am sure, have also been compromised. To learn how to live with a brain injury, and especially overcome many of its effects as my Mom has, is astounding. I have struggled with a wrist injury over the last 6 months and unable to do very much of what my normal life would look like, and it has been one of the most frustrating experiences…I still cannot even fathom what my Mom and anyone with a brain injury has faced.
Below is a fundraiser for the Pikes Peak Challenge September 11th this year that my Mom has hiked 7 or so years to support The Brain Injury Alliance of Colorado. This year Mom and I are volunteering at the top of the 13+ mile hike up the famous 14,000 foot mountain. Her goal is $1,000 to help provide individuals who have suffered a brain injury and their families with resources and support. Please feel free to share or donate to this wonderful Alliance for her birthday Alive and continuing to thrive

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September 7, 2024

2021 Pikes Peak Challenge Virtual Challenger: Cynthia Molloy

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