One of the bravest people I've ever seen...

Tonight, I went to the Kick-Off meeting at Team In Training. Picture hundreds of people who will be running marathons, doing triathalons, and riding Centuries -- training for many months -- sweating and feeling pain and working really hard -- for a cause -- to raise money to fight cancer. Fantastic! I felt proud to be one of them. Now, picture this: A young woman stands up in front of the entire group and tells her personal story of how she was diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma and how she underwent months of chemotherapy. Then, after it went into remission and she got better -- it came back a year later! She had to have stem cell transplants. She said she was in a bubble like the kid in Seinfeld for months and she said that it was painful. When someone that goes through something like that tells you it was painful -- you just know it was. She talked about how she was scared and how her parents and her friends and family were afffected. You know, she and people like her are amazing. I'm just a guy who's afraid of losing someone I love. It made me appreciate how lucky I am -- and made me feel like there's hope for my Dad. She talked about the fact that she had a 50/50 chance of surviving. She said that she's happy that she's here now -- but that she thinks of the others who were not so lucky.