My maternal grandparents Grandma and Grandpa Martinez were the first ones I did. I was so close to my Grams and lost both of them to this crap. I did ones for my paternal grandparents too. Grandma and Grandpa Gossett who also lost life to this crap.
I made one for my friend Kimmy. Remember her? I was the temporary guardian for her young son Gavin. Throughout my experiences I have met some of the strongest and amazing people. I have also buried too many of them. Out of my main cancer support group that I met with the most there are 2 of us left alive. We started out with 12. 10 dear sweet friends in 1 year. WOW!!! That is so upsetting to write. I am bleassed with amazing medical and holistic care. As well as friends who have become family and my family as well. It is because of those people and things that I am here today writing this very emotional blog post.
Anyway back to relay... I did the survivors dinner, and the opening ceremonies. By this time it was about 7pm and still 104 out. I got so sick. I was dehydrated and throwing up. Stupid heat exhaustion. It was so bad that I was not even sweating anymore. My months of preparation were down the tube. :( SAD DAY!!!
I finally found some shade and laid down to try to conquer yet another thing this cancer was trying to take away from me. No such luck. I called my sweet friends and team members to tell them I am OK if they want to quit since I was too sick to continue. They would hear nothing of it. I am blessed remember! They walked, ran and repeated. I went home to rest. In all the team did about 60ish laps and we raised around $1200 out of that $500 was donated by my work doba.com Thank you to everyone who helped prepare, walk, run, donate and everything else! I know without a doubt that without all of you in my life I WOULD NOT be where I am today! You are all truly amazing.
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