I am happy to report that the Race for Cure was a success.  I was so glad to experience it with my family and have them run with me.  I think it gave them a chance to see just how many people are affected by BC.  I thought I would be more emotional, but I broke down at weird times like the day before when I went to register for all of us.  The lady asked a very simple question " Are there any Survivors?" and I started  tearing up. I just smiled,proudly lifted my chest and said " ME!!" But, that was it.  It was too crowded to get emotional- too much going on, there were over 40,000 people racing.

The race was much like my own journey with cancer.  We all started out together, then feeling like I was holding Matt and Brandon back, I urged them to go on and finish there own race.  Chelsea and Kevin stayed with me and Kevin stayed with Chelsea when she wanted to walk- while I felt the need to keep running and do it by myself.  Matt came back and found me and we finished together, all ending up in the same place in the end.

In the end, I thought "Everybody has to run their own race. " and everybody did it differently, yet ended up in the same spot. It was good and I was happy and I hope that one day in life the kids will look back on it and remember when we all did it together.