When I walked the 3-Day last year, it was 60 miles in 3 days. To get ready for those 60 miles I probably walked 2000. I didn’t keep track of it; it didn’t seem important at the time. The first night of sleeping in the tent the temperature got down to 21 degrees, the second night and into the third morning it poured rain. I didn’t do many hills while training; I should have. I think that all of Atlanta is up a hill. The walk was very hard; I earned every cent that was donated on my behalf.
Yesterday Kandis got into my car and said “I think my mom has breast cancer and she’s not telling me.” I asked her why and she told me that her mother’s doctor had found three lumps. April, Kandis’ mom is only 32. After I got to work I called her. They did find lumps, but April doesn’t have insurance. Her doctor gave her a voucher from the Susan G. Komen Foundation to have a mammogram, an ultrasound and get biopsies. Suddenly all of the difficulty of the walk seemed so much more worth it. I wish I was doing it again this year.
If you think all those pink ribbons you see on toilet paper and soup in the grocery store don’t mean anything, think again. All of those women wearing pink tee shirts are on a mission and it takes money to fight cancer. It takes presence to make people aware that they need to be looking for it. If we seem obnoxious to you, it’s for a purpose. Nobody should have to die this way.
As for me, I’m getting my tennis shoes out of the closet and am going to go practice on an few hills. In October of 2008 Lizzie and I both will be walking the 3-Day, I’ll even bring Kandis along if they’ll let me. We will be signing up soon. I’ll post a link to my donation page.
1 comments:
Excellent post! Let's go girls as Shania would say. We just had one walk here. I keep squealing they have got to move up the baseline mammogram time. 40 is too late!!!
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