This past weekend, I helped raise money for a cause that’s dear to my heart: the fight against breast cancer. A group of friends and colleagues walked with me in the Race for the Cure. I walk for two reasons. My mother fought the disease and beat it! She’s been cancer free for about a decade now. It truly is something to celebrate! It’s easy to write a couple of lines about what an amazing thing that is. In reality, it took many years of rehabilitation, doctor visits, radiation treatments, mammograms, surgery, heartache, and physical and mental pain to get to this place. She did it all with a grace and poise that’s indescribable--something I greatly admire. Let’s put this feat into perspective. More than 40,000 people who are diagnosed with breast cancer die every year, according to the American Cancer Society. If you need a point of reference, that would basically wipe out everyone who walked in the Race for the Cure last weekend. Take a look at the video. The streets full of people would be empty, desolate, not one person left. That’s a pretty powerful visual representation of how devastating this disease is. I, for one, have vowed to fight! What will you do? Part two of the story: my personal scare with a lump. That’s in an upcoming post.
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