Relay Rally

Cruisin for the Cure, Relay for Life began today with a signing in and a kick off in the Grand Stand at the county fair grounds.

It never ceases to astound me as to the numbers of people and families affected by this disease. "Nine hundred and fifty new people in our county alone, sometime this year, will hear the words: You have cancer," one of the speakers announced this morning. That seems like an awfully large number. But then again, as I remembered back two years ago, it felt as if Hannah was one of the very few kids to have cancer in the county. Then I glanced down the bleachers,... there sat a young lady who wore a survivor shirt (she's in high school),... I watched as Maddie (a middle school girl) walked by with her short, baby soft-hair (an outward badge that is earned only by the ones who have battled with cancer through chemo),...I spotted a young boy from our church (a high school boy in his survivor purple),... and many others who I didn't see but know of - the point is, once your eyes are open, you seldom miss the big picture, and numbers that reach into the high hundreds are very real,...and very sad.


Hannah signs the Survivor Lifesaver along with a fellow survivor.



Kim and Hannah made the first walk around the track with a number of survivors.


I stood by with my new walking stick (also makes a good standing stick).