the flu

hello all:

so sorry i haven't posted in awhile. i was way sick last week with the flu (of course i would get it because i got a flu shot!). anyway, as i spent five days in bed contemplating my life and making my husband rub my head and tell me i'm going to be alright, i began to spiral into a depression. the kind of depression that you get when you're really sick, and you fear you're never going to get better. on top of that, i was peeved because i was suppose to run a 10k last weekend and couldn't.

then, after awhile i remembered why i was running a 10k. i'm running to cure cancer. i shouldn't get depressed and peeved i have the flu because the people that i'm running for are so very optimistic in the face of much worse. our honored heroes (the cancer patients we are running for) spoke a couple of weeks ago at a breakfast that brian and i went to. it was unbelievable. though some were too weak to stand, and others were too young to understand what was really going on, they had one thing in common: they were determined. and so i will be determined. i am running tonight after a week of not running. wish me luck.

--m