Claude MacCallum tells us how a tradition to cheer up his wife during her chemo treatments became a full project for all their family and friends.
Claude and Shirley
We will be running in the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation CIBC Run for the Cure again this year as we have in the past. We actually run for all those affected by breast cancer but especially for my wife, Shirley, who has been affected by breast cancer since 2003 and has had a full reconstruction on her left side.
Still today her life is not what is used to be. Although she’s very tired, out here in Fall River she enjoys the wild life, setting up her numerous flower gardens and her best friend Bob (an adopted cat). She has been through way too much misery for a young woman.
We run for two reasons. One to raise funds for research, and the other reason is to show her someone cares and gives her moral support.
In our house we have over 100 teddy bears we call Care Bears, a project started by myself for her when she was so sick with chemo I would hide a bear when leaving for work or just going out. Then I’d call her tell her to look for him. It sort of caught on by her friends and relatives.
Today we have over 100 of them displayed on a ledge in our home in Fall River. It is so important for her to be reminded to never give up and that we always care for her and realize what she has to deal with now.
See you on October 3, 2010.
Claude
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