What’s the big deal about yet another cancer walk? To answer, let me take you back to 1993.
What can I hope for now? What should I hope for?” Those questions popped into my head after receiving the devastating news that my follicular non-Hodgkin lymphoma had recurred. I say “devastating” because all I’d ever wanted to do was care for patients and raise a family. That recurrence less than a year after completing intensive chemotherapy meant closing my solo practice of internal medicine to receive more treatment. It also meant my long-term prognosis was terrible. Even with the best available treatments, cancer threatened to take me from my husband and our three children, only 3, 5, and 7 years old.
Hope led me to the Lymphoma Research Foundation. You see, hope of speeding up progress motivated me to help found the Dallas chapter and to form Wendy’s Eagles, a team of walkers that has participated in the walk every spring since. Without that hope, I’d have never mustered the gumption needed to do something outside my comfort zone: ask people for money. Hope of research finding answers keeps me at it, year after year.
Wendy’s Eagles has raised over $150, 000. I’ll never know which trials—or patients—benefited from that money. What I do know is that Wendy’s Eagles has been helping researchers in the quest for answers. [Excerpt, Wendy’s Story of Hope]
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