I started this blog with the intention of being upbeat and trying to be slightly humorous, but today I'm ranting a little.
I spent my morning at the local Komen Race for the Cure. I didn't run or walk in it, but helped out some with some fellow Jaycees at the food booth.
My rant is against cancer and why oh why haven't we found a cure yet? I hear the numbers of how much money has been raised in the fight, and I wonder, when is it going to end? Especially after spending a day in our beautiful city park, with nice but humid weather and seeing the pink shirts of the survivors, and seeing survivors younger than me. It's just not fair, this cancer crap. The survivor's faces seem to be getting younger.
You see participants wearing their signs "In Memory of" - children who've lost a grandmother, men who have lost wives, even mothers who have lost their own daughters while fighting their own personal battle. I try to focus on the number of people who wear the "In Celebration of" signs and just pray and hope that the celebration signs will one day be the only signs you see, and eventually we won't even need this race, because cancer will be eradicated.
One can only hope.
Saturday, May 10, 2008
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I am on this year's Upstate SC Race Committee, as chairperson for Sleep-In for the Cure and as a team captain.
It astounds me how much money we raise, how much we give to research and to helping prevent and do early detection, and all that.....
... and yet how prevalent cancer is.
When I walked my first Komen race last year, especially in Mile 2, I started getting a little slower, a little draggier .... but all I had to do for inspiration was see the women walking in pink. The survivors. I knew some of them were currently in treatment ... and if they could do it, so could I. I had no reason to whine.
But like you, I wonder ... when will the Komen race and Relay for Life and all the other cancer fundraisers FINALLY become unnecessary to furthering a cure? I eagerly await that day.
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