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A great big thanks to WPFT!
Views: 532Added: Wed. Sep 16, 2009 9:29am
Posted in: Dragon Boat Racing
To Kathleen and all the women of WPFT;
It was such an honor to finally meet all the ladies of WPFT. I've gotten to know Andrea and Mary, but it was wonderful to finally put all the rest of the names to faces. I've visited the WPFT website and have read the articles, blogs, and profiles, but now you're all "real people" to me.
Thank all of you, from the bottom of my heart, for what you've done for the pink Dragon Boat team. We couldn't have gotten this far without your support. And I'm so proud of you for forming a support team. I can't tell you how powerful that is to those of us who have had or do have cancer. Dragon Boating is not an easy sport. And we take up the challenge because it gives meaning to our battle with cancer. It gives us some place to channel our energy in a way that's proactive and positive. Cancer puts you in a really dark place at first. So having the opportunity to not only take back our lives and functional ability, but to also to accomplishing something that most people our ages wouldn't even try: that gives us the mental upper hand against cancer. I hope that that makes sense.
You and your support team take up the challenge solely out of a sense of altruism. Your participation, in something so physically demanding on behalf of relative strangers, is testament to your depth of compassion. I don't know a lot of people who would take on something as strenuous and mentally challenging as Dragon Boating. It's much easier to just write a check and be done with it. So the concept of supporters taking up Dragon Boating in support of women they haven't even met is seriously powerful to survivors.
Thank you again, and may God bless you all.
Gratefully,
Kat Fieler
Andrea Eliscu
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Posted 11:45am September 16th, 2009I want to share this with the nurses and staff at MD Anderson so they get excited about life after treatment for their patients.