Anna…
A friend of mine is doing the Walk for the Cure, and I can’t help think back to Anna. Before she was diagnosed, she was a fun friend. Someone I loved to grab a drink with and bum a smoke from when I went back home. My buddy’s girlfriend in high school.
…then when she confessed to me what was up, she became so much more. There were only a few that she told, and our lives changed dramatically when we found out. I was one of just a couple who ever saw her after. To see someone in that state will change you forever.
Flying home for her funeral was one of the hardest things I have ever done, one of the saddest, and one of the happiest. I couldn’t bear to look at a picture of her, I just kept breaking down to tears. Yet, it brought so many of the friends together who I hadn't seen in a decade, I knew she would have toasted every sip.
I don’t know if anyone still reads this, but if there is, I’m sure one of you has had a friend who cancer has gripped…and hopefully beat cancer. If you can stay in one night you would go out on the town, please pledge for my friend, Allyson, who has the balls to take time off of work and walk for 3 days in protest of the plague of our generation.
It feels like we aren’t getting anywhere, but it is amazing how many people we can save now. With the right funding, I wonder how many of us will be saved in the future. Please click the link below and think of it as a payment in your own life insurance, or keeping your best friend.
http://www.the3day.org/site/TR/2010/SanDiegoEvent2010?px=5409979&pg=personal&fr_id=1469
Thank you,
J