Many thanks to all 600 plus Wayne Cares participants for participating in the 2009 Susan G. Komen Detroit Race for the Cure®. Because of each and every one of you, Wayne State University received an award for the highest number of participants amongst other universities.We would be interested in knowing your reason for participating in the race. Are you a cancer survivor? Do you know someone that has been afflicted with cancer? We want to hear your story. If, however, discussing this sensitive subject proves to be too painful for you, you can always tell us how much you enjoyed the race and/or festivities instead. We would love to hear from all of our Wayne Cares participants. So start blogging!
Again, I might be a little biased, but I thought the event was great. I certianly had a good time taking shots of everyone walking/running in the race. I almost forgot it was a Saturday and I was WORKING (hehe). Still had a great time. The picnic was great too.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure what made me want to participate this year. Maybe it's because the mom of one of my best friends is battling breast cancer. Maybe it because so many women from my church--women that I love dearly--are survivors. Maybe it's because I felt like I HAD to do something, but I wasn't quite sure what little old me could possibly do.
ReplyDeleteThat day was so wonderful. I was excited, I was sad, I was angry...excited because I was apart of something so big and so important; sad because I saw many people that had already lost mothers, sisters, wives to breast cancer; angry because there are still so many women that will suffer. As they were doing the parade of survivors, I found myself fighting back tears. I watched as a teenaged boy--about my son's age--held his mom--a woman about my age--who was a survivor. I couldn't imagine my son and I being in that position.
I had originally signed up to walk 1 mile. But as we started walking we saw survivors walking past the 1 mile mark...we saw survivors on the opposite side of Woodward running. I talked my son into going the distance. We did the entire 5K and it felt great!
--Polly Talison, Computing & Network Svcs.
I ended up walking in the race because a friend of mine asked me to walk with him. His mother was diagnosed with breast cancer about a year ago, and she's been going through the motions (ie the treatment process) for a while now. It's not like you can say NO to a request like that, so that's what got me down there.
ReplyDeleteEven though I'm skeptical about what is really done with our registratin money (1.3 billions dollars donated and still no cure), I will say the event was nice. I've never seen so many people clustered together happyily walking down Woodward.
I have 6 sisters. I heard that 1 in 7 women will be diagonosed with Breast cancer. That statistic hits close to home.I am hoping that this disease can be eradicated in our lifetime. Research and early detection are our only options for a cure.
ReplyDeleteIn addition, it was a beautiful day, the musicians and singers on Woodward made it a pleasant experience. All the freebies at Comerica Park were nice. Thanks, yoplait,Panera bread, McDonalds, Nike, Ford, Smuckers and CVS.
Juanita