Our first Walk for Awareness was a success! There if no final tally as we still have walkers that need to go collect from their sponsors but we made some good money for the foundation. Today Larry and his wife, Cathy, and Carol and her husband (why can't I remember his name!) got here and it was wonderful to meet them. Carol is alot taller then I expected but every bit as wonderful as I imagined. Larry was the down to earth gentleman I thought he would be. Some local survivors that I had not met before also showed up so it was a fulfilling day.
I've never done anything like this before so made lot's of mistakes but now we will know what NOT to do next year.
I hope that each and every one of you will consider doing one of these walks in your state. It's the ONLY way we will make a huge impact on this disease. The board helps people that are battling the disease, learning to live with the disease, lost someone to the disease, etc. We need to use our experience to help others that haven't entered our world yet to either STAY OUT of our world, or to enter it as one of the "luckier" ones with a stage I, easily treated cancer. We need to reach out to the people that don't know anything about our website.
Again, today was a day I will never forget. I was with people that know how I feel, know my darkest fears and inner anxieties, know how my world has changed. That feeling does alot for ones emotional health.
Take care,
Minnie