It was an early morning. Why is a cancer run at 7:30am? I went with my sister and her friend to walk the 5k Race for the Cure in Eugene. I worried it would be an emotional event, and it did have its moments. But it was more that I was seeing the event from my sisters' perspective. It's such a personal battle and to have strangers acknowledging you, being invited into your disease and survival, that would be very uncomfortable.
At 9:30 was a family 1k and it was really fun having her kids walk with us. It was good to have a "fun" part to having a mom with a serious illness. There was ice cream and treats and all the free pink trinkets (pens, stickers, key chains etc) that a kid could ever ask for. I always have to chuckle now when I see a pink ribbon because Stella says: "That shirt has breast cancer" or "That bag has breast cancer".
I sorry to be invited into the crappy club of "directly affected by breast cancer" and more saddened but relieved that my sister is a "Breast Cancer Survivor".
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She is looking great! I'm so glad you were able to go down and enjoy this walk with her.
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