As I mentioned yesterday, I’m on Team Corbin, supporting Stand Up To Cancer in the Charity Smackdown 09. (You can donate on the widget on the right >>>)
Over on the Stand Up To Cancer blog, they tell great stories of people who are inspiring. One of my stories and reasons for Standing Up To Cancer is about my cousin, Abby. At age 12, when many of her friends were more interested in boys, haircuts and bat mitzvahs, Abby had some symptoms that no one could figure out.
She took it upon herself to go online and do her own research, and her conclusion was unfortunately correct: she had Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. And if you quote her the Larry David quote about “the good kind” she’ll look at you with fierce anger, then tell you there is no good kind of Hodgkins.
Abby went through hell, lost her hair, was sick all the time from chemo and radiation, and basically lost a year of her childhood. All while managing to complete school work and come back the next year as President of her class.
I look at her now, a grown woman, at an Ivy League school, working for a prominent government office as an intern and probably in line for a serious job there, and I marvel at how she has continued her life.
But I also know she and her family always have be on the look out for the Big C.
So, as part of this Smackdown, I Stand Up for Abby, and I’ve made a donation today to Stand Up To Cancer, in hopes that my amount will make a difference for the girls like Abby in the future.
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One response to “Why I Stand Up to Cancer – Abby – Charity Smackdown”
I have read where only 3% donations go to childhood cancer research, they are so many children that is being dx with cancer and dying, please help the little ones, if only someone could go to childrens hospital, for instance go to NationWide cheldrens hospital on j5 and see these poor children suffering, it is a gutwrenching floor to be on, why i know my grandson goes there and how terrible to see him suffer, he is in remission now but they have to take adults full chemo because theres not enough research on it, my grandson Colyn McDaniel legs gives out and wakes up crying in the night, please fund more for childrens cancer, if you go on all of these caring bridge where it is to late for so many that is dying right now, it is getting more and more kids getting dx with this monster cancer please fund more than 3% on our kids cancer they are our future, kids should be fee and playing instead of dying. Nancy McCulley Colyn (mama) http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/colynmcdaniel