Sarah Caiger has been affected by breast cancer, but she shares with us how a bad experience taught her some good lessons.
I think that the disease, cancer, has had a huge effect on my life and me. There are numerous people that have had cancer who are close to me who have either died from cancer, or won the fight of cancer; both being traumatic experiences. These events, of seeing people dying and watching people fighting this awful disease taught me a couple of things.
The first one is to be the change you want to see in the world. I think that this quote best describes my first feeling because after a certain point of watching my family and friends suffer, I wanted to stand up to this and make a change. I learned that sitting down and letting cancer take my family and friends wasn’t going to do much. That would be when I decided to start taking action to be that change in the world I wanted to see.
I put a team together called Team Hope for the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation CIBC Run For the Cure. Together, we raised money and walked to support the people who are fighting breast cancer. We did fundraisers and events to ensure we had a good amount of money to donate and then we walked/ran a five-kilometer walk to the finish line.
When you’re on the five-kilometer walk you look around at the thousands of people who are walking with you and you realize that we are all in the same situation. I watched little children walk past with signs on their backs that said I’m running for my mom, and my heart just breaks because that child has a possibility of not having a mother for the rest of their life. In that moment of seeing everyone and those children, I wasn’t only running for myself and my family anymore; I was doing it for every person who is missing an aunt, mother, wife, sister, girlfriend, who had the fight and didn’t win because life is valuable. We aren’t the only one’s living this life; there are millions of people who are in rough situations everyday and that we need to depend on each other to help each other.
In my opinion, this event called me to help others and to be less self centered because I got to see what everyone else was going through and it made me feel like I wasn’t alone to be apart of such a big community of people trying to help this one cause. Cancer did change my life forever, in good and bad ways. It took away some people that I loved very much but showed me lessons that won’t soon be forgotten.
RIP
Aunt Ruby
Auntie Marj
Aunt Alla
Aunt Emily
Aunt Sharon
Joanna
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I think that it is wonderful that you are thinking of people that have had breast cancer or are trying to fight it.
love Emma!
I know Aunt Ruby would have been proud of you doing this and that she is watching over you. You meant alot to her as well as the rest of your family. Love Aunt Debbie
Thank you,Sarah. I have great hope for the future with people like you in it.
Sarah; Iam so proud of what you are doing to help fight breast cancer.It makes me want to help in some way also. You have me thinking. love Aunt Sharon