Monday, January 1, 2001
Kenarie's
www.kenaries.com will donate a a portion of profits from each sale to the Breast Cancer 3-Day. Visit Kenarie's.com to shop for great jewelry, stationery and gifts and support the Breast Cancer 3-Day benefiting Susan G. Komen for the cure.
Holly Smith
Holly Smith
Melon
Moscow, TN
View Holly's 3-Day Page
I recently decided to find a way to help those diagnosed with the dreaded disease we call cancer. I joined a "Relay for Life" team at my place of employment. It was an experience I will never forget. We were amazed at our success in raising money within the community for such a great cause. While participating in this event I was informed that one of my best friends mom was diagnosed with breast cancer. I then felt compelled to do even more and reality set in. Last year I discovered a lump in my left breast and immediately thought it must be cancer. I couldn't get it out of my thoughts until I knew for sure. I constantly worried about the effects this would have on my husband, my children, my family and my future. Luckily my lump was nothing more than a mass of breast tissue that I had damaged and had repaired itself in the form of a lump. I consider myself lucky. Unfortunately some of us aren't so lucky and their worlds are turned upside down. So, now I ask for your help and donation so we can help find a cure for breast cancer.
Melon
Moscow, TN
View Holly's 3-Day Page
I recently decided to find a way to help those diagnosed with the dreaded disease we call cancer. I joined a "Relay for Life" team at my place of employment. It was an experience I will never forget. We were amazed at our success in raising money within the community for such a great cause. While participating in this event I was informed that one of my best friends mom was diagnosed with breast cancer. I then felt compelled to do even more and reality set in. Last year I discovered a lump in my left breast and immediately thought it must be cancer. I couldn't get it out of my thoughts until I knew for sure. I constantly worried about the effects this would have on my husband, my children, my family and my future. Luckily my lump was nothing more than a mass of breast tissue that I had damaged and had repaired itself in the form of a lump. I consider myself lucky. Unfortunately some of us aren't so lucky and their worlds are turned upside down. So, now I ask for your help and donation so we can help find a cure for breast cancer.
Mississippi Melons Sidewalk Sale
Marianne and Holly are hard at work again! They have gathered donated items from friends and neighbors and will sell them Saturday, August 2nd. If you live in the Hernando area you will not won't to miss this event!
Good luck girls!
Good luck girls!
My Future
The Opening Ceremonies of the Breast Cancer 3-Day are so moving and inspiring that you will feel like you cannot wait to start walking that day's 20 miles and you will burst from the gate with a revived sense of strength and energy. At the end of the 3rd day, you will dredge into the holding area silently wishing for a hot bath and soft bed, but somewhere between the Victory Walk and the beginning of the Closing Ceremonies you will wish you had just one more day. As a second time Breast Cancer 3-Day walker, it is truly an honor to be carrying the "My Future" flag during the opening and closing ceremonies. But as moving as these events are, my prayer is for a future without them. When I look at my son, my step-children, my neices and the children of my friends, I see bright, beautiful individuals full of hope and potential. I will carry this flag for them, so hopefully they will never have to.
Kendra Simpson
Kendra Simpson
10 Year Survivor
Earlier this year a friend of mine asked if I would be interested in going with her to find out more about a team of ladies who walked 60 miles last year in the fight against breast cancer. My first reaction was “are they crazy”! When I left the meeting I was still a bit skeptical but excited to learn more. The more we talked the more excited I got. Within a couple of weeks of that first meeting I had completed my registration for the San Francisco 3-Day 2009. I thought what better way to celebrate my 10th anniversary of being a breast cancer survivor than to be surrounded by people all striving for the same goal. My team mates are all amazing women - committed to their families, the fight against cancer, and especially to each other. What an honor it is to be a part of the Mississippi Melons, the 3-Day and the Survivor Circle. I’m not sure what to expect when I step in the Survivor Circle in San Francisco, I will have more emotions than I can possibly put into words. Hugs will be given; smiles (tons of smiles!) will be everywhere and tears by the bucket full. Past that - memories that will last a life time and thoughts of next year!
I walk because I can; I walk for those who can't
I walk for my daughter and my grand-daughters
I walk for my mother, my mother-in-law, my friends &
Their mothers, so they don't have to!
I walk because I can; I walk for those who can't
I walk for my daughter and my grand-daughters
I walk for my mother, my mother-in-law, my friends &
Their mothers, so they don't have to!
Kathleen Young
Kathleen Simpson Young (and Lucy, trainer)
Melon
New Orleans, LA
What is Kathleen doing here?!
I know a million reasons that I might not seem like a good candidate to walk 60 miles in 3 days. (Smoking and drinking might be in the top 20 good reasons but I am still going to do it). I also know too many names of women who are my great reasons for doing this - doing something that matters - doing something that I can do - maybe, just maybe, something that will really, really make a difference. What if my small part was pivotal? What if this had all taken place in time for my mother to be at my wedding instead of my family being at her funeral two weeks earlier. I have loved ones I will walk in memory of and friends I will walk in honor of and for my sweet, beautiful nieces, step daughter and friends who I love that, thank God, are still untouched by breast cancer - I will walk to defend them against breast cancer. It may be all I can do but, by God, I can do this much. With a lot of help from above and from all of you. Wish me luck - wish us all luck!! With much love, Kathleen
I know a million reasons that I might not seem like a good candidate to walk 60 miles in 3 days. (Smoking and drinking might be in the top 20 good reasons but I am still going to do it). I also know too many names of women who are my great reasons for doing this - doing something that matters - doing something that I can do - maybe, just maybe, something that will really, really make a difference. What if my small part was pivotal? What if this had all taken place in time for my mother to be at my wedding instead of my family being at her funeral two weeks earlier. I have loved ones I will walk in memory of and friends I will walk in honor of and for my sweet, beautiful nieces, step daughter and friends who I love that, thank God, are still untouched by breast cancer - I will walk to defend them against breast cancer. It may be all I can do but, by God, I can do this much. With a lot of help from above and from all of you. Wish me luck - wish us all luck!! With much love, Kathleen
Bobbie Baker
December 22, 1999 I went for my annual exam with the GYN. It was then that he found the lump. December 23 I had my first mammogram & ultrasound and on Dec 24 I had the biopsy. By this point I already knew the answer, that it was cancer. The doctor called me on Monday to confirm the news. I was devastated to say the least. We had just moved to the Chicago area and living with family until we could find our own home. My daughter was 2 1/2 at the time. I thought life had ended. Well, needless to say it didn't. I'm now 9 years out and doing great! I've learned lots of life changing lessons along the way and made many wonderful friends. I'll never be the same person I was then but I think it's for the best.
I walk because I can, I walk for those who can't, I walk so my daughter will not have to.
Marianne Parsons
On April 8th I was on my way home from The FINAL FOUR in San Antonio. Being a MEMPHIS fan, I was very disappointed in the outcome of the championship game. I called my mother on the way home...and my world changed! She spilled the dreaded news to me, yes it was cancer and yes she had to have surgery. How was this possible? Afterall we have no family history of this, I was thinking. All of a sudden Memphis Basketball was no longer at the forefront of my mind. Four days later my friend Kendra called and told me about the 3day walk. She had no idea about my mother's diagnosis when she called. She DID know that I would support her in whatever "crazy idea" she might have. I knew right then that I was walking! It did not matter if it was 60 or 600 miles. It did not matter how much money I had to raise. It did not matter which city in which I walked. I had to walk....IN HONOR OF MY MOM...who has not stopped smiling.
Butts for Breasts!
Marianne and Holly are cooking Boston Butts for the 4th of July weekend and selling them to raise money for the Breast Cancer 3-Day. Marianne has sold 41 butts...get down! If you miss them on the 4th catch thema gain near Labor Day.
They are $25 each. Contact Marianne or Holly for details.
Have a safe and happy 4th of July!
They are $25 each. Contact Marianne or Holly for details.
Have a safe and happy 4th of July!
Sandra Jean Hill
Born May 23, 1941 in Hattiesburg Ms. Died September 18, 1994.Diagnosed with breast cancer in 1983, mastectomy and radiation therapy done. Was in Nursing School at the time. Dropped out due to illness, later returned to health care as a Respiratory Therapist. Worked in Jackson Ms, Hattiesburg and Gulfport, Ms. She was Cancer free for 5 years until 1989 when she developed respiratory problems and was diagnosed with metastasis of Ca to the lung, liver and bone. Met her partner Pat, 5 months before the diagnosis. She was treated by Dr. Jane Gurtler in New Orleans and at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Washington, D.C. over the next five years, participating in two experimental programs to defeat breast cancer. She continued to work at Memorial Hospital, Gulfport as Assistant Director of Respiratory Therapy and cared for her elderly mother, who died in July 1994, until the time of her death five years later in September of 1994.She loved to drive her convertible even, in the winter, with the top down and was known for her love of dancing and sharp wit.
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