One of my friends asked me, after reading my last post, why I wasn't going to run races for breast cancer. I don't believe I said that. I just said that I am going to make it a point to run races for other diseases besides breast cancer also. Of course, I will donate and raise awareness. But besides doing all that, I want to raise awareness for other diseases.
I have started meeting with other survivors once a month so we can vent and talk about how we are feeling with other woman who have been through chemo and the craziness. I am the only breast cancer survivor. Through tears, my friend said that it was so frustrating trying to get help because she didn't have the "glorified" disease called breast cancer. That is when my way of thinking began. I had so much help. I had places to go for wigs. I got free make up and guidance on how to put it on once my eyebrows fall out. I got tons of free stuff because I had breast cancer. She was dealing with lymphoma and dealing with it without all the help I got.
It shouldn't be that way. We both could have died from our diseases. We both were scared. We both had to go through chemo. We both lost all the hair on our bodies. But she didn't get the same great help I did. But she should have.
Again, we should share the love. So I will run races for all diseases. 1 down, how many more to go?
My friend, Kim, and I are running in a half on April 19th. That just happens to be my birthday so I am super excited. We think it would be great to get a whole bunch of friends to run with us. When I ran my first one in 2007, it was because one of my student's little brother was diagnosed with leukemia. And one of my best friends had been killed in a car accident. So I ran for both of them. I ran it with Team and Training and raised money for blood cancers. I had thought about running one, but just needed a little push. So here is your push. Who wants to do it with us?
http://www.active.com/cumming-ga/running/georgia-peach-jam-half-marathon-and-5k-2014?
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