As probably none of you know my family has been through the cancer ringer enough times to stop counting now.
A fellow blogger (Jessica) just wrote about her friend getting cancer (and it seems very advanced for such a young age! good luck to her and her family!)
My mother and sister both has ovarian cancer and it metastasized to many other organs in both of them. They both had massive surgery to evacuate all of the organs that could be taken out and pieces of organs that can't (rectum, intestines, liver, you catch my drift).
My family was fortunate enough to have the BEST gynecological oncologist in the entire world: Dr. Stephen Andrews. (Who now resides as a big wig at The Ohio State University Hopsital)! (You go Dr. Andrews! Thank you for all of your hard work and effort into saving my family! I will never forget you or your staff and I love you with all of my heart. I can never say thank you enough for the extra time that you gave us with our loved ones!)
However, many other women and men are inflicted with this terrible disease every day and it is found too late and there is no cure... not yet!!
I know that sometime in my lifetime there will be a cure. If I am so unlucky and get this disease then I want there to be as many options as possible... as I am sure most anyone would when faced with this situation.
Whatever anyone can do to raise awareness helps. I love doing the Ovarian Cancer Walk!! Love it!! This year I went to the walk and fundraised before and I raised $80. $80 doesn't seem like much but it is more than they had before!! $80 probably wont find a cure but it's $80 to add to someone else's $80 and so on until we have raised enough to learn all we can and do all we can!
Cancer is one of my favorite fundraising causes and it means so much to me when I see other people raising money for these charities that support a cure too!!
Remember: Cancer is a word, not a sentence!
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I do 2 walks every year that mean a lot to me. Scleroderma and Breast Cancer. If my money tree ever starts growing, I'd give to many more charities (Humane Society, all the Cancer charities, March of Dimes, food banks, etc.) I agree with you on the whole fund raising thing, it's more than they had before and every little bit helps. I've also learned that if you register to walk and receive the t-shirt, less money goes to the charity. I tend to just donate and not get the shirt (or other token) so that more goes to research.
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