Survivors' Blog

Follow five of our survivors below as they train for the HERSHEY'S Tour de Pink ride and learn about their triumph over breast cancer.

Forgetful

Posted on Sep 21, 2009 by lisa

It's a little over three weeks until the 2009 Hershey's Tour de Pink.  There is a lot of emotion leading up to this and strangely, I forgot one of the key things in my life this year.  Heidi - who I love dearly - emailed me and said "hey, hasn't it been 5 years since your recurrence?" Wow. How could I forget? But I guess it’s not a bad thing that it’s not foremost in my mind.  To be honest, I guess in the back of my mind I remembered Thursday when I was in NYC at Fashion's Night Out.  I bought a new winter coat (60% off of course) and I told Kathleen and Marcia that I shop like I will die tomorrow.   Then I will actually live to be old and poor and move in with my friends.  Oh yeah and it has been 5 years since my recurrence.  In our own way each of us survives and remembers.  Who knew 2009 Hershey's Tour de Pink was going to be so special. I have not trained nearly enough but in my mind I ride like the wind. In reality I will... read more >>