Every three minutes a child is diagnosed with cancer! Yes, every three minutes!
If you have seen what this disease does, you know that nobody, especially a child, deserves this fate.
I'm shaving my head to raise money for childhood cancer research and my three year old son, David, will be joining me this year! (My five year old daughter, Payton, doesn't do more than a trim or she would be up there with us too! She will excitedly cheer us on!) I came to embrace this worthwhile cause because my friend, Libby Miller, did it on the spur of the moment two years ago ... her first shave just happened to be at the time our good friend, Marcia Clanton, was fighting against the cancer that took her from us a little while later. I promised Libby that I would participate the next year (2014) and I did!
I have been blessed thus far to not have been touched by childhood cancer in a child who is in my family. I didn't realize it until recently but I did know a young man, who had childhood cancer, when I was growing up; his sister was my age and has always been a very good friend. I have been pushed further to this cause by three young men I have "met" and been inspired by on Facebook: Silas, AJ, and Ethan.
I have been "beaten up hard" several times by adult cancer when people I loved were not able to overcome the power, devastation, and evil of cancer: Amis (1985), Aunt Helen (1981), Brian, Lavinia (1993), Ray (1997), Jackie (2002), Mike (2004), Janice (2005), Aunt Cindy (2005), Major (2005), Anne (2006), Cathy (2007), Papa Dump (2009), Donna Kay (2009), Alan (2011), Greg (2011), Marcia (2013), Uncle Gerald (2014), and Aunt Shannon (2015).
I am very blessed to know some cancer survivors: Connie, Kim, Sandra, and Dr. Bill.
I have recently learned that some people I know are in the process of fighting cancer: Robert and Carol.
Kids' cancers are different from adult cancers and childhood cancer research is extremely underfunded. I believe that cancer research of any kind is a step towards finding a cure for all types of cancer so I have made the decision to support children and am honored to participate in Savannah's St. Baldrick's Day shaving for the second year ... with many more to come!
Now what are you going to do? Yes, that is a challenge! Donate ... Join our team ... Pass my information and request on to everyone you know. Thank you for any and everything you are able to do to support me in this mission of love! Tag ... You're it!
