Inspiring!

My Twitter handle is @BoobiesMatter.  I love Twitter and have been looking at the hashtags #Powerof39 and #Avon39Walk to get ideas from others.  Something that I also started doing is liking, responding to and retweeting others' successes.

Positive energy was such a huge thing for my family member. The doctors were realistic that the cancer was scary.  A positive comment here and there really helped.  It also kept all of us focused that this was a journey towards healing and not a death sentence.  

I am walking alone on this and not with a team.  It really got daunting to think that I had to raise $1800.  But reaching out to coworkers and friends took me to 24% of my goal in just 5 days.  Getting positive feedback from folks has been huge and makes me want to continue. 

...and my issue in being uncomfortable raising money is nothing like the need for positivity when it is about fighting cancer.  The doctors know that it is daunting and scary.  People do succumb to the disease.  But the research gives us hope.   More and more success stories give people the will to keep fighting through the -ectomies, chemo, radiation and weird feelings in the body.  I know that the encouragement from friends and family really helped my family member with her will to fight, and she knew that she could win. 

I am committed to the women that this walk will support.  And I am committed to those who are working as I am to raising money to walk the 39 miles. Even if it is a like, a retweet or a "woo hoo!"  And seeing their successes makes me know that it is possible to do this; it makes me want to keep going. 

If you are interested in a contribution to my walk, please visit my page. http://info.avonfoundation.org/site/TR?type=fr_personal&fr_id=2403&px=7834763&bpg=list&pg=personal. 

Thank you so much for reading.

A late start. Boobies Matter.

So, the Fledgling is a bit of a tubby person who likes to walk a lot.  I have a family member who is a cancer survivor.  She was the recipient of a breakthrough cancer treatment at Northwestern University.  This was 12 years ago and she's still going, full steam ahead!

Walking is good.  Cancer is bad.  I was going through Facebook one day and happened to see an ad for the Avon 39.  Walking against cancer!  Woot!  I have always wanted to do one of these walks to honor my family member.  I've also been walking a lot more.  What would 39 miles be?  Over two days!  Pish posh.  Not hard, right?

I signed up for the walk and committed to raising $1800.  No problem.  I thought of the walk and thought that this will not be hard.  But then I realized that I am extremely shy when it comes to asking people for money!

Ooops.  But I committed.  I AM committed. I am COMMITTED!

So this blog will serve as a storyboard for the Fledgling's path to something that is uncomfortable for her to do.  Out of the nest I flop.  I'm going to raise the money...not for me...but for other women who faced what our family did.  Cancer can be beaten.

If you are interested in helping, here is the donation site for the Fledgling.

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