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CureCancerStarter.org Is Launching Today - Marty's Thank You Note
Here is what I just wrote on our CureCancreStarter.org blog. Blog is acting a little…
Via Martin (Marty) Smith
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Via Martin (Marty) Smith
My Favorite part of a THANK YOU NOTE I wrote this morning as we launch CureCancerStarter.org into the world:
"After sixty days of riding a bicycle 3,300 miles during Martin's Ride To Cure Cancer we saw the ocean and a large BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal) was struck from my bucket list. Today feels like we've arrived in Colorado. Colorado is where Martin's Ride RUBBER met ROAD, where everything we ARE or ever WILL BE was tested. When we reached Colorado I rode with my sister Caroline in a land so beautiful and challenging everything seemed right, true and real.
CureCancerStarter.org feels right, true and real too. Creating a view behind the cancer research curtain is fascinating, wonderful and empowering. POWER is something every cancer patient understands perhaps better than anyone. When I was diagnosed power felt stolen and my life force dimmed. Cancer was driving my life suddenly and in directions that only the Big C could understand.
If I could visit CureCancerStarter.org that day, the day I heard "cancer" and my name in the same sentence, the news may have felt a little less devastating. When a doctor tells you about your fate you feel like an iron curtain comes down isolating you from every other human, isolating you from family and friends. You are never more alone than in that moment.
CureCancreStarter.org is here to say NO CANCER PATIENT is ever alone."
Thanks to all of my Scoop.it friends, teachers and coaches. Couldn't have gotten HERE without your help, love and support.
Marty