It was stirring seeing thousands of runners and walkers dressed in pink descend on Parkcenter Boulevard. A new record for the Boise Komen foundation, and our live coverage was filled with inspirational stories of women who have beaten this insidious disease that inflicts young and old seemingly almost indiscriminately. It's almost a 'terrorism disease,' a nagging concern for all women who realize they could become the one of every eight women in the U.S. who will contract breast cancer in their lifetime. 1-in-8!
Breast cancer is also hitting very close to home for us in the Journal Broadcast Group family. K-HITS morning show host Margo Vaughn's treatment for breast cancer has been difficult, and she's discussed her struggles at length in another blog on this website. Her wonderful sense of humor clearly gets her through the hard days, and hearing her on the radio and seeing her each morning on our 'Today's 6 News Good Morning Live' smiling and laughing gives us all inspiration and hope.
Which is why I don't want to see another 'Race for the Cure.' By May of 2009, let's have a cure! The 11th gathering at Parkcenter Boulevard could be the 'Race to Celebrate the Cure.' A victory lap for everyone who ever donned a pink shirt and gave a few dollars to produce the cure that killed a killer.
I realize that's unlikely. Researchers say we are making progress, but the medical race for a cure sometimes seems slower than the last person to cross the finish line on Saturday (which by the way, may have been Michelle Edmonds).
That can sometimes make us all despair a bit until you see thousands of people in pink descend on Parkcenter Boulevard united in their determination to do whatever they can to defeat breast cancer. I'm proud to tell you I am not a member of the television station that has sponsored Boise's 'Race for a Cure' for 10 years, every year more successful than the last. I'm also a member of the team that raised the most this year, Michelle's Militia. We're a militia for a reason! ... because this is war, and we hope the few shells we lobbed in the battle against cancer Saturday hit their mark! That battle against breast cancer is turning. Time to make it a rout!
http://e-library.net/Cancer-Breakthrough-USA-The-little-known-American-clinics-that-turn-around-even-hopeless-cancer__ebooks12440.htm
See Cancer Breakthrough USA. Apparently many are being cured, but the pharmaceuticals and medical community lobbies against it as the case with many naturopathic treatments.
It's a very interesting book.
Mom
Posted by: Barbara Picken | May 13, 2008 at 07:45 AM