Walking the Race for the Cure
The top photo shows happy runners sharing their support for the "Race for the Cure" 5K by donning pink heads. Pink is the symbol of hope and inspiration for women afflicted with breast cancer. My comedic troupe of 6 sported t-shirts that read "Save Second Base," wink, wink. S2B and the pink people were, sadly, dead last in a pack of 3000 runners and I bailed out on the fun 1 mile in, thanks to a job offer calling me away last minute. Some of us have mothers who are battling the disease while others have mothers who have been cancer-free for years.
posted by Sonja Stark of PilotGirl™ @ 11:27 AM
2 Comments:
(Almost) no sooner had I written that I'd love to see a picture of the 5K race that there was one online - you must have been posting around the same time! 3000 runners! Wonderful!
Second base? I thought it was a run, not a baseball game.
I just read your blog entry Sony, and thought how horrible a disease breast cancer is. As opposed to other forms of cancer with clear causes (lung cancer, for instance), breast cancer can happen to any woman at any time, healthy in other ways or not.
So far, the women of my family have had no problems in this regard but how heartbreaking it must be for anyone who does or anyone close to her.
My brother died of cancer at 32, and there was no clear reason for his long, painful illness. He did not smoke, did not drink, and led a healthy life in every respect.
Breast cancer is just one of the many, many reasons we need to make the health of everyone on this planet a top priority, starting right here in the US. How many other legitimate uses for our tax dollars are there?
Health costs either bankrupt millions of people or people go without and fall ill, causing misery, removing millions of otherwise productive citizens from the workforce.
This makes no sense whatsoever.
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