This year it hit home that a world without cancer just isn't a reality. I know it's hard to believe but we are finding ways to beat it.
I'm living proof - this year I was diagnosed with benign cancer, and my scare was quick and required surgery, and I came through the other side with some new
perspectives. It was minor blip, but it's amazing how a minor blip makes you think.
And talk about connecting the dots:
This year, I also had the privilege to work with Susan G. Komen nearly exclusively at my day job at Bank of America. The people in that organization are truly inspiring and passionate. And then there's the walkers, volunteers, supporters and the whole community. My experience with Komen, and my personal experience, led me to reflect on the people in my life who have fought the disease, those who have lost, those who have won, and still are fighting.
I thought of my Grandmother who past away two years ago, near San Diego, in her nineties - but a breast cancer survivor having been diagnosed in her 70s and beating it.
I thought of my sisters, my mother, my nieces, my aunts, all of my family and relatives, my best friends, my co-workers, my teachers, all the great women in my life. And I thought about how every one of them is at risk. I dedicate this walk to all of them- and my supporters. I truly cherish you and believe everybody deserves a lifetime.
So that's why I walk, and it's kind of hard to put into words. It's a feeling. And at the end of the day, it's easier to explain by doing vs. telling. So you'll have to listen to my 120,000 steps, that's the real answer to the question; "Why do YOU walk?"
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