May 17th, LiveSTRONG Day!
Hello Blogging world!
This is my very first post. Motivated by the fact that this is LiveSTRONG day! May 17th!
Why am I so motivated? Well, I am a 2 year breast cancer survivor, and this date in particular, May 17th is the 2 year anniversary of the end of my old normal life and the beginning of my new life. My life as a cancer survivor.
You see, 2 years ago today, probably RIGHT NOW, I had my very first, and my very last mammogram ever. I had found 2 lumps in my breast, and had put off doing anything about it for about a month, till my Mother found out and hounded me to get a Mammogram.
I went. And I guess it was a good thing I did (See... Mother's do know best!) as I was diagnosed with an agressive and invasive form of Ductile Carcinoma. Breast cancer.
And why does this day mean more to me TODAY?? Because this has been proclaimed as "LiveStrong" day, where 2 survivor representatives from each state are going to Washington DC to lobby on our behalf, to encourage, pursuade and insist that congress grant more support to cancer research.
Why, you may also ask, is this important to me, as I have already been diagnosed and treated? How will the research tomorrow help what happened to me 2 years ago?
First of all, I don't want anyone to have to go through what I went through. Being diagnosed with cancer is one of the most frightening, humiliating, de-humanizing, traumatic, un-nerving, maddening, frustrating, helpless experiences anyone can experience. The only thing worse than being diagnosed would be having someone you love diagnosed. Then you REALLY feel helpless. I don't want my daughter or husband or Mother to ever have to experience this as a patient. So, on behalf of my daughter, and on behalf of YOU, I am now more driven than I would have ever imagined to make sure that everything I can do to help make this dreaded disease history gets done.
So today, I write in support of those advocates venturing to DC to speak on our behalf, and I want to give them all the support I can.
Today I write in support of the thousands of people around the world who will hear the words today: "I'm sorry to tell you this, but you have cancer".
No one wants to hear these words, and as a cancer survivor, I can tell you that I never want to hear the words "I'm sorry, but your cancer has come back"!
Please join me and the 10 million other cancer survivors who want to put an end to these sentences and replace them with: " I am happy to inform you that we have completely erradicated all forms of cancer and we will all live, cancer free"!
Wanting to live, without pain and without fear. Is this so much to ask?
So please help us spread the word that we not only want to live, but we want to live STRONG.
And we will, as long as it is in our power.
This is my very first post. Motivated by the fact that this is LiveSTRONG day! May 17th!
Why am I so motivated? Well, I am a 2 year breast cancer survivor, and this date in particular, May 17th is the 2 year anniversary of the end of my old normal life and the beginning of my new life. My life as a cancer survivor.
You see, 2 years ago today, probably RIGHT NOW, I had my very first, and my very last mammogram ever. I had found 2 lumps in my breast, and had put off doing anything about it for about a month, till my Mother found out and hounded me to get a Mammogram.
I went. And I guess it was a good thing I did (See... Mother's do know best!) as I was diagnosed with an agressive and invasive form of Ductile Carcinoma. Breast cancer.
And why does this day mean more to me TODAY?? Because this has been proclaimed as "LiveStrong" day, where 2 survivor representatives from each state are going to Washington DC to lobby on our behalf, to encourage, pursuade and insist that congress grant more support to cancer research.
Why, you may also ask, is this important to me, as I have already been diagnosed and treated? How will the research tomorrow help what happened to me 2 years ago?
First of all, I don't want anyone to have to go through what I went through. Being diagnosed with cancer is one of the most frightening, humiliating, de-humanizing, traumatic, un-nerving, maddening, frustrating, helpless experiences anyone can experience. The only thing worse than being diagnosed would be having someone you love diagnosed. Then you REALLY feel helpless. I don't want my daughter or husband or Mother to ever have to experience this as a patient. So, on behalf of my daughter, and on behalf of YOU, I am now more driven than I would have ever imagined to make sure that everything I can do to help make this dreaded disease history gets done.
So today, I write in support of those advocates venturing to DC to speak on our behalf, and I want to give them all the support I can.
Today I write in support of the thousands of people around the world who will hear the words today: "I'm sorry to tell you this, but you have cancer".
No one wants to hear these words, and as a cancer survivor, I can tell you that I never want to hear the words "I'm sorry, but your cancer has come back"!
Please join me and the 10 million other cancer survivors who want to put an end to these sentences and replace them with: " I am happy to inform you that we have completely erradicated all forms of cancer and we will all live, cancer free"!
Wanting to live, without pain and without fear. Is this so much to ask?
So please help us spread the word that we not only want to live, but we want to live STRONG.
And we will, as long as it is in our power.
posted by Cindi in Indy @ 8:04 AM
4 comments
