Inspiring and poignant story at Yahoo today from a writer with Melanoma and Thyroid Cancer who became a runner after the cancer.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081018/ap_on_he_me/running_for_my_life;_ylt=AjCxhgVpuiFyuK1lSPaIwl2s0NUE
FormerMember
just read this, yes it is inspiring and yes cancer does change your life, wow she never ran before, there is hope for all of us i love a story like this. thanks for sharing xxxx
...now where did I leave my trainers (sneakers!!). Seriously though, it is something I have been thinking of doing. I ended up with lymphoedema following my surgery for melanoma, but my nurse tells me that moderate exercise is good, and it certainly would be very moderate in my case!
And I did promise Mayte that I would do the Manchester 10K....
I realise I may be the only one who thinks though, that sometimes these stories while generally uplifting- are just another way in which we're made to feel we should be doing more...
I couldn't run to save my life, but it is worth remembering that we can all do a little more each day, until we get used to the extra effort, and stick to it until we can even do it on bad days, then up the game just a little so that we can do it on our good days and the original bit on our bad days.
That way we find our future life coming gradually to meet our old life. However indefinably, it will happen, and the stages between increased activity will become shorter.
It isn't meant to make us feel inferior or guilty for not doing the same, but it is just reporting how someone can rise above their illness. Not our illness, theirs. It should inspire us just a litte, to reach up to the next branch, or even just to try until one day we can reach it.
I could see that hull, but I think we will each get what we do from it. I got that she is changed, forever, from her cancer. I hear that a lot from "survivors". I didn't get the inferior part from this particular story. If you want to feel inferior you should go t the International myeloma foundation website and read the founder's story! She gets myeloma and goes on to raise over 150 million in research and get 5 new drugs approved in record time, all the while she has two small children and myeloma! Now that makes me feel inferior! :)
