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Charity Walking
"I’ve seen her lie in bed all day while all I could do is bring her glasses of water or fold the laundry"
By Sarah Bufkin
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Sarah Bufkin has found a way to battle her own feelings of helplessness as her mother battles breast cancer.
As I sat in the parking lot washing down my second peanut butter, jelly, and graham cracker sandwich with a swallow of Gatorade, I looked at the crowd surrounding me. Women and men of all ages were filling up their water bottles, tending to their blisters, and proudly wearing their pink T-shirts with messages like ‘Hoofin’ It for Hooters.” A year ago, I never would have thought that I would end up here at the Breast Cancer 3-Day walk.
But my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer last year. Since then, I’ve watched her go through multiple surgeries and chemotherapy. I’ve seen her lie in bed all day while all I could do is bring her glasses of water or fold the laundry.
Cancer is not something that I could ever fight face to face. That's why I discovered the true value in the fundraising marathons held across the country. They abolish the guilt from people who couldn’t do anything to help their wife, their sister, their mother, or their best friend fight for her life against breast cancer. .
With each sweaty hill that I put behind me, I distance myself further and further from those painful months and approach acceptance. My mother is now a breast cancer survivor and I am content that I have done what I could to fight cancer.
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