Whelp, bright and early yesterday morning, I worked with the American Cancer Society for the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk in Chicago. Beautiful view of the Lake...and FREEZING!!! 3 shirts, a jacket, and a sweatshirt later and I was STILL cold! But it was worth it. I was assigned to the survivor tent and then the Dedication Wall where we collected donations and put up names of anyone touched by breast cancer. My partner in crime for the day was a beautiful girl named Jennifer who has a Grandmother who is a survivor, a cousin a year older than her who was diagnosed at 26 and passed away just before her 27th birthday, and she herself who just turned 26 has been diagnosed - on her birthday! She is a trooper and a ray of light. You'd never know what she's been through the way she cheered people on and kept up the pep to keep the rest of us going all day. She's pretty amazing! Here's pictures of two other gals that worked with us, Jamie and Tiffany (Jamie lost her mom to BC when she was just 7), and as it turns out I scanned their tags as a volunteer at the end of their 3-Day Walk for Susan G. Komen (Small World!!) along with our team leader Melissa, a "night shot" of us at check-in...that's 6:30am in Chicago, folks!, a crowd shot of walkers warming up (the baby in the center was a hoot!), and a couple that hung 76 - 76!!!!!!!!!! - ribbons to honor BC victims, sufferers and survivors. It's things like this that make me so glad for the health and grace that God has blessed me with.
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