My friends Sally and Nancy and I joined about 30,000 other walkers and runners in downtown Phoenix this morning in celebration of the progress made toward treatment and early detection of breast cancer.
This is ten years for me - my surgery was October 13, 2000, and my first time to participate in Race for the Cure was a few days prior to surgery. It was pretty emotionally draining - seeing all the pink shirts and pink hats. A diagnosis is the beginning, not the end - sometimes it takes a look at all that pink to let that sink in.
We did the 5K walk this time - maybe next year we'll see if we are up to the 5K run (that's optimism!!)
There's still time to donate to this worthy cause - just google the Susan G Komen site and see what opportunities there are to donate and volunteer.
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