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luminaries Originally uploaded by midnight drive I participated in the local Relay for Life yesterday/last night/whatever. I wasn't expecting it to be as...touching as it was. "Walking around the school track for twelve hours" doesn't sound like a sentimental thing, but it actually was. Seeing how many people on my college campus who were actually affected by cancer was astounding. I'm not going to get all preachy about how we all need to stop cancer, and do research and donate...because everyone's heard all that before and frankly it's not my thing.
What shocked me about the entire night, was finding out that one of my friends/classmates is an ovarian cancer survivor. Let's call her N. She took off from school for a semester and every once and awhile it will come up (the missing semester) but I had no idea that she took off for medical reasons. I'm pretty sure no one else knows either. It sounds dumb, but I was kinda surprised that someone in my age bracket could have ovarian cancer. For some reason it always sounded like a disease for older-already had kids-about to hit menopause women to me and not college kids who go to the mall and play soccer on the weekend. Not shocking but really surprising. Up until now I hadn't really meet anyone so young who had to deal with having/overcoming cancer.