This is a WEEI special broadcast.

It's day one of the 23rd annual WEEEI Nesson Jimmy Fund Radio Telethon,

presented by our Bella Insurance, here for the Jimmy Fund, here for good.

Now, live from Fenway Park.

It's the Greg Hill Show with Greg Hill, Termain Wiggins, Courtney Cox, and Chris Curtis.

Good morning from Fenway Park and the 23rd Annual W.EEEI Nesson Jimmy Fund Radio Telethon.

Day number one, you have donated somehow over $74 million over the last 23 years.

Last year, just short of $4 million, and hopefully we can get over four over the next couple days.

And Wiggy, Courtney Curtis, you guys have all been a part of this for for years and it is

truly the two most important days of the year at the radio station yeah I agree Gregg and welcome

back growing up here you always knew about the Jimmy fun but I was able to partake with

Nesson for five years and then three years here and every year we hear from so many

patients so many doctors nurses and they always say cancer affects everybody and you never know when

that's going to come and be and be tough for you and for this past year this was my year where it was

my mother-in-law and then my best friend um and my best friend, I've talked about my mother-in-law on the show, but my best friend was diagnosed with testicular cancer a week after my mother-in-law. And he lives in Denver. We were trying to figure out where he was going to go. He wanted to get treated here in Boston. And I immediately called Lisa,

who works with the Jimmy Fund. And I said, is there any way you could help? And not 24 hours later,

he had an appointment. He was in at Dana Farber. And he is doing so well now. So it's unbelievable.

We take it for granted. We say that every year. How lucky we are that we live here, that we are near the Dana Farber, and that we have the best doctors and nurses, you know, known to mankind.

Yeah, it almost makes all the bike lanes palatable.

No, I've been here since 13 and then growing up listening to the radio stations, radio telethons, dating back to the start of the 2000s.

And the one thing that struck me the most when we were at the Dana Farber after all the years of listening here and hearing the stories is when someone is ill, when you see a news story, Greg, of a young girl in a Boston town that's fighting for her life

and they show the little town like they'll do Christmas in July or they'll do the police officers will write notes to a young boy who's got cancer

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