26 Days - Checkup

Tuesday, March 24th - 26 Days to Marathon Monday

Temp: 32 degrees

Distance: 7 miles

Fundraising total: Officially $7450, unofficially with match funds coming in, $8800. 

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Another cold 7 mile run along the river today. But the sun was shining bright and it didn't seem so bad. I even took off my hat!! Imagine that! I felt so free with nothing on my head! I hear we're close to setting yet another record for the coldest March in history. Go figure after the snowiest winter. The white stuff will be around til May I think.

On another note, I took my daughter to her 6 year checkup today. Normally I wouldn't have thought much of this, but having been involved with a group raising money to fight cancer, I'm more aware of the blessing of a "normal" checkup. There are kids I've met who spend days and weeks at a time in hospitals, hooked up to IV's, shots on a daily or weekly basis, who have lost all their hair and may not get it back. These kids have gone through hell, and a lot of the time you'll hear a parent say they had just gone in for a routine visit and found something strange, and that's what started them on their cancer journey. A "normal" checkup is not something to take for granted. It's a blessing. I stood there today with my daughter in her hospital gown and saw how scared she was just for this regular checkup. She didn't even have to get any shots, and she was scared to death! She hated having to put on that gown and didn't want anyone seeing anything under it, which I think is a good thing for a girl. But anyways, I can't image how hard it is for moms with kids with cancer, to have to see them suffer. I wanted to cry today for my girl who was afraid of a normal checkup! Forget about it if they had to IV her or anything worse. I'd lose it.

I don't mean to sound depressing. I'm not, it was more that I just realized that all these little healthy things we take for granted, can not be taken for granted. Every day we are healthy is a gift.