Comments on: The race, the cure, and the power of hope. http://www.idivamemphis.com/2007/10/23/the-race-the-cure-and-the-power-of-hope/ Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 22 Aug 2011 21:09:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Carolyn Furlotte http://www.idivamemphis.com/2007/10/23/the-race-the-cure-and-the-power-of-hope/comment-page-1/#comment-2873 Carolyn Furlotte Thu, 25 Oct 2007 02:40:36 +0000 http://www.idivamemphis.com/2007/10/23/the-race-the-cure-and-the-power-of-hope/#comment-2873 Loved Sunday's column and this blog. "Let's live until we die" is a great theme. Doing anything else is a stupid rejection of God's greatest gift to us. On my china cabinet is a painted sign with this quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt, who knew a few things about living life her way: "Celebrate! Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it!" I'll be at the Race Saturday celebrating my 11th year of wearing the pink shirt and hat, with lots of good friends, family and sister survivors. Here are some of their names to add to your list -- Pam, Pat, Celia, Nikki, Kelley, Monica, Bonnie, Cindy, Dawnell, Sandra, Wynn, Vicki, Virginia, Mimi -- long-time survivors and brand-new ones, And your Ellen is on my list, too. Hope to see you Saturday in your skirt. I'll ask my photographer husband Tom to look for you specially. Tom and the other volunteers from the Memphis Camera Club will be all over Saddle Creek again, recording all the emotions and events, and most of all, the people brought together by the Komen promise, to end breast cancer forever. Keep up your good work in spreading awareness and saving lives. Loved Sunday’s column and this blog. “Let’s live until we die” is a great theme. Doing anything else is a stupid rejection of God’s greatest gift to us. On my china cabinet is a painted sign with this quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt, who knew a few things about living life her way: “Celebrate! Life has got to be lived – that’s all there is to it!” I’ll be at the Race Saturday celebrating my 11th year of wearing the pink shirt and hat, with lots of good friends, family and sister survivors. Here are some of their names to add to your list — Pam, Pat, Celia, Nikki, Kelley, Monica, Bonnie, Cindy, Dawnell, Sandra, Wynn, Vicki, Virginia, Mimi — long-time survivors and brand-new ones, And your Ellen is on my list, too. Hope to see you Saturday in your skirt. I’ll ask my photographer husband Tom to look for you specially. Tom and the other volunteers from the Memphis Camera Club will be all over Saddle Creek again, recording all the emotions and events, and most of all, the people brought together by the Komen promise, to end breast cancer forever. Keep up your good work in spreading awareness and saving lives.

]]> By: Pat McRee http://www.idivamemphis.com/2007/10/23/the-race-the-cure-and-the-power-of-hope/comment-page-1/#comment-2872 Pat McRee Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:19:49 +0000 http://www.idivamemphis.com/2007/10/23/the-race-the-cure-and-the-power-of-hope/#comment-2872 Cindy, Carol Ann and Shirley - the 3 women in the picture accompanying your piece, who have 33 survival years between them...each one working double-time to encourage others! Barbara, Joyce, and Teena battling metastatic cancer courageously, trying new cutting edge drugs that are the wave of the future. Artist, Colleen Newport Stevens, who battled for 13 years, trying everything available (as she said, "right after the lab rats and the monkeys!"). She left us about four years ago but she left us with stories of her never-give-up, thumb-your-nose-at-cancer attitude! All those women with other kinds of cancer who didn't get their own pink month, especially the ovarian survivors who must fight so hard just to get diagnosed...Brenda, Susan, and Ann. Robin, trying to make the decision on whether to have bilateral mastectomies, even though one breast is healthy. She wonders, like so many others, if she can live with the fear of that healthy one betraying her in the future. I wish I could list the thousands of them out there. Please just add Mid-South Warrior Women to your list and cover them all...they own that title. Cindy, Carol Ann and Shirley – the 3 women in the picture accompanying your piece, who have 33 survival years between them…each one working double-time to encourage others!

Barbara, Joyce, and Teena battling metastatic cancer courageously, trying new cutting edge drugs that are the wave of the future.

Artist, Colleen Newport Stevens, who battled for 13 years, trying everything available (as she said, “right after the lab rats and the monkeys!”). She left us about four years ago but she left us with stories of her never-give-up, thumb-your-nose-at-cancer attitude!

All those women with other kinds of cancer who didn’t get their own pink month, especially the ovarian survivors who must fight so hard just to get diagnosed…Brenda, Susan, and Ann.

Robin, trying to make the decision on whether to have bilateral mastectomies, even though one breast is healthy. She wonders, like so many others, if she can live with the fear of that healthy one betraying her in the future.

I wish I could list the thousands of them out there. Please just add Mid-South Warrior Women to your list and cover them all…they own that title.

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