Survivor Bug

To travel to popular caches, be seen by lots of people, and raise money for breast cancer research! If you'd like to donate, please go to www.survivorbug.info. Whether you donate or not, please move me along soon. Thanks!

Last year I walked the the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life - teams of people walking for 24 hours straight to raise money for cancer research. At the start there was a ceremony for survivors, and they gave each of us a medal. Now, never having been a competitive athlete, I'd never won a medal. But this? A medal for having had breast cancer? It seemed kind of ridiculous. What would I do with it, anyway? Then the solution came to me, an aha moment similar to those when I finally get a puzzle cache. I'd make it into a travel bug! One to raise money so that my kids' generation won't have to worry about getting breast cancer because they will have cured it!

In additon the the Relay for Life, every year I walk in the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer 3-Day walk. I walked my first one 3 years ago, still in treatment for my own cancer. Each year I raise over $2000 for breast cancer research by walking 60 miles in 3 days.

Thsi travel bug's goal is to help me reach my goal of eradicating breast cancer. If you'd like to donate, go to www.survivorbug.info, and you will be taken to my Susan G. Komen web page, where you can make a fully tax-deductible donation as large or small as you like.

Geocaching women out there: make sure you get your mammograms starting at age 40 (earlier if you have a family history!) And if there's any question, if they tell you your breasts are dense and they can't see, or any other problem, INSIST on a sonogram or MRI. We are our own health advocates!

Thanks for supporting me!