Inspiration

So if anyone hasn't noticed, I have been missing in action this year thus far. To be honest, I have been so busy with school that I was thinking about not walking. The thought of having to fundraise and train was overwhelming me and I wondered if I could do it one more year. That was until I got a phone call from my closest friend from college. She is getting married this summer and I assumed it would be a discussion about her wedding plans. It wasn't. She told me that her mother had found a lump in her breast and that she was going to have a mastectomy in the next week. After the surgery, the doctor diagnosed her with stage two breast cancer and she started chemotherapy the following week. My friend spoke about having mixed feelings. Part of her was completely devastated that her mother has breast cancer while the other part reached for some bit of relief that it was not stage three or four. Everything that I am going through right now, compares nothing to what her and her family is going through. It made me think about why I decide to do the 3 Day in 2006. I didn't want someone to go have to go through what my friends mother, and my friend for that matter, is going through. So with that, I am walking again, in support of those who are fighting breast cancer, in honor of those who have survived breast cancer, and in memory of those who have passed because of breast cancer. I am walking for you.