My Story, Breast Cancer Awareness
This year, I joined the Komen community and registered for the Susan G. Komen MORE THAN PINK Walk. I'm a breast cancer survivor. As of February 2023, I've been cancer free, and every day since has felt like a gift I don't take for granted.
If you've never been through it, it's hard to explain what a cancer diagnosis does to your life. Treatment is exhausting, it's frightening, and it is expensive in ways most people don't expect until they're living it. There were days when just getting through the next appointment felt like the whole job.
What I remember most clearly, though, is the kindness. During my treatment, I received a gift box filled with essentials, small practical things someone had thought to put together for a stranger. I still get emotional thinking about it. Someone I had never met wanted me to know I wasn't going through that chapter alone. That box meant more to me than they will ever know.
That's why I walk, and that's why I'm asking you to give.
None of us know when we'll be the one asking for help. Your donation funds research, screenings, treatment assistance, and the kind of support that reminds someone in the hardest stretch of their life that people are in their corner. No amount is too small. Every single dollar goes further than you think.
Please give what you can, and thank you for standing with me and with everyone still fighting.
With gratitude,
If you've never been through it, it's hard to explain what a cancer diagnosis does to your life. Treatment is exhausting, it's frightening, and it is expensive in ways most people don't expect until they're living it. There were days when just getting through the next appointment felt like the whole job.
What I remember most clearly, though, is the kindness. During my treatment, I received a gift box filled with essentials, small practical things someone had thought to put together for a stranger. I still get emotional thinking about it. Someone I had never met wanted me to know I wasn't going through that chapter alone. That box meant more to me than they will ever know.
That's why I walk, and that's why I'm asking you to give.
None of us know when we'll be the one asking for help. Your donation funds research, screenings, treatment assistance, and the kind of support that reminds someone in the hardest stretch of their life that people are in their corner. No amount is too small. Every single dollar goes further than you think.
Please give what you can, and thank you for standing with me and with everyone still fighting.
With gratitude,
Lori
