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 By Kaycee Nilson June 2, 2008 On June 6, 2008, I will be participating in a life-changing event. I will be doing the 12 hour "Relay For Life" with the American Cancer Society. This has brough about a sense of self-awareness that I haven't felt since I was first diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer in 2002. I'm lucky, maybe even luckier than most people to have a husband that during the early years of our marriage, he dealt with a wife that could have turned out to be terminal. Instead of running for the hills, he stayed beside me. He stood behind me when I was unsteady on my feet. He held my hand for test results. He helped me to pick out wigs, he held what was left of my hair while I prayed to the porcelain goddess. Most of all, he made sure that I didn't miss out on too much of our youngest child's baby years. I've been training for this event by going to the gym, eating better, napping during the day so that I can kind of get my days and nights mixed up so I can be on that track as much as possible. How I got involved with this event is a friend of mine just had a grandson to survive neuroblastoma at the tender age of 15 months. That says something about the human spirit. That also give kudos to medical science and the strides we have come since 1968 when my mother was diagnosed with the same Ovarian Cancer that I survived. Her treatments took long long years but she survived. (I guess that we women in my family are stronger than the world gives us credit for.) I'm rather excited, I am not at my $1,000 goal that I set for my fund raising, but $350 is better than no fifty. If anyone would like to donate, email me and I'll send you the link to my page. Yes I am walking under a different name. But that's another column for a later date!!!! I walk for me, I walk for the sleeping form of my husband who is laying on my left side. I walk for the sleeping form of my youngest child sleeping on my right. I walk for my middle son who is asleep on the floor at the foot of my bed. I walk for my oldest child who is in her own apartment now. I walk for my mother who has taught me grace through humility. Most of all, I walk for those that can't walk this year. ------------ About the author: Kaycee Nilson has completed her first novel, Night Falls on Chicago. The first two chapters can be viewed right here. Besides writing columns for U-K and Speedway Media, Kaycee is currently working on two more novels, From the Mind of a Vampire, and I'll Love You Til You Die. If you have enjoyed what you've read, or would like to leave Kaycee a note, please visit her message board here. Email: Kaycee@kayceenilson.com Comment on this article here! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com. Please link to this article rather than copying and pasting it onto your site (which would be unauthorized and illegal). |
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