For me, the crusade is personal. Six years ago, my woman parent was diagnosed amongst phase III ovarian cancer. After multiple invasive surgeries, 3 rounds of fell chemotherapy, too the removal of also many organs to count, she was dorsum on her means to a salubrious life too ready to seat the cancer behind her. To celebrate, my woman parent planned a bucket-list trip to summit Half Dome inwards Yosemite. That’s 17 miles, 5,000 feet of elevation, too xiv hours of climbing. Per the usual, her passion for the hike turned contagious, too what had started every bit a unproblematic solid unit of measurement opor-garai apace grew into a 30-person parade through Yosemite.
The nighttime earlier the hike, spell trying to play hostess to the large gathering of people who had assembled inwards Curry Village, my woman parent received a missed call. It was from her doctor. On a Saturday. She similar a shot knew what it meant: The cancer was back. Without telling a soul, my 60-year-old woman parent pushed through the hardest hike of her life. Not only physically, but emotionally. As she climbed the 5,000 feet from its base, the top of Half Dome personified itself into the cancer that was growing within her. Conquering the mount became conquering the disease. With heavy legs burning of lactic acid, she pushed through to the summit. It became a defining moment. Not only for her. For all of us.
I promise you lot come upwards to the Hike for the Cure. If for zip else, only to run across my woman parent Susan Turner. Despite the odds, she’s live on too hiking. Still living amongst cancer, hiking for her has kept its meaning. My mother, similar many of us, uses the fourth dimension to organize her thoughts, achieve something physical too connect amongst a the world she volition run out sooner than she should. I promise you lot produce too. The Hike for the Cure takes house on Nov 8th, 2014 at 9:00 AM from the Top of the World. Please see our website at www.facebook.com/hikeforcure. I await forrad to seeing you lot there.
Brett Turner
