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Help a Dad Blogger Battling Cancer – For Oren Miller

June 30, 2014 by Kevin McKeever

Oren Miller and family in 2012. Photo courtesy: Oren Miller
Oren Miller and family in 2012. Photo courtesy: Oren Miller

Oren Miller, the man behind A Blogger and a Father and a good friend of City Dads Group, recently received a diagnosis of Stage 4 lung cancer. The cancer has spread to his liver and brain. The prognosis is not good.

Oren, who founded the popular Dad Bloggers Facebook group, wrote about the devastating news with unbelievable grace and – to properly use a word often tossed around when bloggers make online admissions – bravery in a post simply titled Cancer.

Several of Oren’s friends got together to try raise $5,000 to pay for him and his family to take a vacation together. The funds came in so fast and furious that the goal was raised to $10,000. Then $20,000. Now, it is at $30,000 and it has nearly been reached again as of this writing. Oren and his family say they will use the funds for that vacation, medical expenses and other family needs.

We encourage all of you who can to donate to the fundraiser for Oren and his family. If you need more convincing, here is a list of some of the many articles written about Oren by his blogging friends:

At Home Dad Matters – Oren’s Corner: A Bittersweet Dedication

Ay yo, Be a Father – Helping Others

Big Cheese Dad – A Chance to Pay it Forward

Dad and Buried – Help a Father Out

Daddy Doctrines – Helping Oren: Break the Bystander Effect

Dadmissions – Dads I admire

DadNCharge – The Power of People: Lifting up the Millers

Dadscribe – Once More…For Oren

Fit to be a Dad – When One of Our Own Needed Us, #Dads4Oren Came Running

Frank’s Place – Give a little – it means a lot

Ihopeiwinatoaster – A Post for Oren Miller

The Jack B – Father’s Day, Lurkers, and Other Thins that Matter

Joshua Wilner – Help Inigo Montoya Defeat His Greatest Nemesis

Life in the Fishbowl – My Father’s Day Wish

Nerd Icognito – A Sad Day for a Great Man

One Good Dad – Oren Miller: Champion of Fatherhood and Cancer Fighter

The Purposeful Pappy – Leaving a Legacy

Puzzling Posts – A bedtime story for adults: it’s easy to ask for help

Raising Sienna – A Groundbreakering Dad Blogger Needs Our Help

Scotchfully Yours – We Are All The MIllers

Stay At Home Punk – Sometimes, Even Superheroes Need Help

The Daddy Files – Of Time, Cancer, and Snapping Turtles

To My Son Tommy – Dads Don’t Need Help, Right?

Today.com Parents: Dad bloggers rally around father with terminal cancer

Note: This has been cross-posted at NYC Dads Group.

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Filed Under: health, outreach Tagged With: cancer, Oren Miller, social media

About Kevin McKeever

City Dads Group Editor Kevin McKeever runs Write On, Kevin Communications when not being an at-home dad to three: boy, girl and canine. He wrote a two-time nationally award-winning newspaper column, blogs at Always Home and Uncool and tweets as @homeanduncool. His work has been featured in USA Today, Canada’s Globe and Mail, the New York Daily News and landfills worldwide.

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