Jillian’s Dream is thrilled to announce our partnership with Prelude to a Cure, the non-profit arm of Moffitt Cancer Center’s Lung Cancer Center of Excellence. With the direction and vision from the founders Dr.’s Lary Robinson and Scott Antonia we are working together to increase our visibility, advocacy efforts and fundraising goals.

In Tampa, rappel down a building to combat lung cancer

By Robbyn Mitchell – Times Staff Writer

“It was such a shock,” laughed the 59-year-old mother of three from Tampa. “She told me to let go of one hand and then the other. I was just hanging there by my harness.”

She was almost halfway down before the beauty and gravity of what she was doing dawned on her.

“On one side, I could see the ocean at Fort Lauderdale Beach; on the other side I could see the city. It was gorgeous,” Miller said.

Ninety people may have that same experience on Dec. 13, when Miller’s organization, Jillian’s Dream, hosts a rappel down the Island Center at Tampa’s Rocky Point to raise money for lung cancer research in honor of Miller’s daughter, Jillian, a registered nurse who succumbed to the disease in May 2013. Rappelers need to raise or donate $1,500 to go to Uniting Against Lung Cancer in order to qualify.

“We did the Susan G. Komen 3-Day. I walked and she was on medical staff,” Miller said. “She told me she didn’t want a walk. She wanted something creative. She said, ‘Go big or go home.’ ”

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