Cancer Awareness

Cancer.

The one word that can bring down every emotion in the book: denial, fear, anger, depression, anxiety, hysteria, regret, sadness, loneliness...well, you can get the picture.

My grandmother, Granny Ruby, one amazing and loving woman, had cancer...I learned how to cook with her and where she kept the oreo cookies. My Dad, Frank, had prostrate cancer but it didn't stop him...I learned how to throw a baseball with him and how many oreos to take from Granny Ruby. My brother, Laton, had skin melanoma and later on stage-4 liver cancer which ultimately cost him his life...I learned how to be a brother...well, I learned a lot from him growing up but that's a whole other blog! :-)

I am listing a few resources:
http://www.cancer.org/
http://www.cancer.gov/
http://www.relayforlife.org/relay/
http://ww5.komen.org/

I strongly encourage you to donate to the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life: http://www.relayforlife.org/relay/ People can sign up for teams and gather donations that support the ongoing research efforts, treatments, education and support for patients, survivors and their families. Walk or run, crawl or stumble...it doesn't matter how you do it...just commit and do it.

Cancer can be beaten. But it will take EVERYONE doing their part to help.

So please help find a cure...let's all erase cancer from the dictionary and from the bodies of our friends and families. Big thanks to Becky (who runs for Komen) and Allison (Relay) for everything they do...keep it up!

Now, I'm off to scoot...