I finally did one!

Anonymous

Daniel's therapist invited me to the ACS Relay for Life (held tonight), and doggone it, I FINALLY was able to attend!  (Ever since dx, I have been unable to do any Relays at all!  I was always recovering from a surgery of some sort!)

This particular one was a much smaller scale than the ones I used to witness in Peoria, IL (Komen for the Cure Land), and I had no idea what to expect.  The people who ran it were apologetic for all of the "kinks" in the schedule and activities, but it didn't matter one bit. 

Walking the survivor lap was a glorious moment for me.  People clapped for us.  I looked at each of the survivors, and I marveled at how I could easily have run into any of them on the street and never would have known they had been affected by cancer.  The same goes for if they would run into me!

I cried.  I cried proud tears when the Survivor Lap began.   I cried tears of amazement at the lone woman at the end of the Survivor Group.  She had a walker, and it was an obvious struggle for her to get anywhere.  People were walking ahead of her, unaware of this beautiful woman gasping for air with each breath and each labored step.  She didn't finish the lap-she didn't even finish a quarter of the lap.  My new cancer friend (someone I met as we waited to take our lap) and I offered to push her in a chair, we offered to help with her walker, she declined.  She sat on the edge of the track and I saw in her eyes that she was PROUD.  In her eyes, she DID it. 

I'm hooked!  When is the next one?!

faithandfifty

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Survivors?

THRIVERS!!

dreamwriter

Congratulations - I am so happy for you.  I cannot do a survivor lap.  But I used to run track... so maybe you could do one for me......