...My nightmare started when I was in High School. My home economics teacher and mentor was diagnosed with breast cancer. That year some of the teachers and students put together a team and started to relay. I didn't know much about relay then. I had a great weekend and raised alot of $$. A couple years later my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. It was then that I knew that I had to have my own team. It started with just my aunt and I, and just continued to grow. I have been actively involved with relay for 5 years now and have been a team captain for the last 3. I couldn't think of a better way to spend my summer. I enjoy relay and my team has fun with it too. I have since gotten my boyfriend and his family involved too. My mother is a 3 year survivor this may and even she joins us every year and walks her butt off! I want to thank all those who get involved and lets have another great year! Hats off to Relay '07!!!
im so glad your mom was lucky enough to survive!! and hats off to you for making your team! my church [fbc smithfield] has a team and I am a big part of it since my mom, aunt laura, grandfather, & uncle ervin have died of cancer. My Aunt Gaynell, Aunt susie, & teacher and close friend Gale Stanfield are all survivors and i relay for them.
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I lost my mom to ovarian cancer. Please find a cure.
Love,
Fronia S. Knott
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Thanks for Posting and Sharing to you both...
and as Fronia says, "Please find a cure"... That's why we are all here.
...My nightmare started when I was in High School. My home economics teacher and mentor was diagnosed with breast cancer. That year some of the teachers and students put together a team and started to relay. I didn't know much about relay then. I had a great weekend and raised alot of $$. A couple years later my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. It was then that I knew that I had to have my own team. It started with just my aunt and I, and just continued to grow. I have been actively involved with relay for 5 years now and have been a team captain for the last 3. I couldn't think of a better way to spend my summer. I enjoy relay and my team has fun with it too. I have since gotten my boyfriend and his family involved too. My mother is a 3 year survivor this may and even she joins us every year and walks her butt off! I want to thank all those who get involved and lets have another great year! Hats off to Relay '07!!!
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