To those with good hearing
www.ovca.net
www.ovarian.org
www.ovariancancer.org
Other Listeners
Louise:
www.bombinmybelly.typepad.com
Rae:
http://limbodacious.blogdrive.com
Spike:
http://www.spikeharris.com/somethingevil/
Cancer, Baby:
http://cancerbaby.typepad.com/cancerbaby/
Sandee:
http://www.day-without-rain.org/sandee/
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Mar 21, 2005
A little promotion to a worthy cause. This April 30th in NYC, I am leading a team in the Revlon Run Walk for Women's Cancers. Please feel free to check out my teams site and make a donation if possible.
Go to www.revlonrunwalk.com
Go to teams
Type in "All About N.E.D." (don't forget the periods between the letters!)
Last year a group of my friends got together and created a team in my name, the "we love Jen" team. And we got about 30 people together to walk, and raised over $4000. It was an amazing and overwhelming experience.
Flashback to May 1st 2004, I was in the middle of my chemo treatments, bald, and just living day to day in a daze. I walk into Times Square and meet all of my people, who were amazing just getting their asses out of bed on a Saturday at 7a.m. to be there with me. My team captain, gives me a pink "survivor hat" to wear. I think I had it on for about two seconds and put it away. I didn't feel like a survivor at that time, after all I was just trying to survive. I went througth the walk just looking at all of the signs on people's backs saying "in memory of my mom," "breast cancer survivor 10 years," "in support of my sister," "in memory of my daughter" etc.... At the end of the walk the group (when I say group I mean 40,000+ people) gather and there is a "survivor photo" taken. I didn't attend the photo session. I felt so out of my element. It was so amazing and scary to see just how many people have, or had, or know someone who did or does have cancer. The following morning something silly set me off and I just broke down crying. It just hit me that I am now one of these people, in this group, the cancer club!
It was a shock to my system.
This year, my friend asked me if I wanted to lead the team and I agreed. I created the team name to represent what all of us dealing with cancer desire and strive for which is getting a report stating "no evidence of disease." Thankfully this is where I am at now, and hope to stay at for a long long long time. I think that this year, on April 30th, I will wear that survivor hat proudly, and take that photo and have an entirely different perspective and experience. And I am looking forward to it!
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