Day #41 –
Tuesday July 26th, 2016 – Leaving SD to head home
As our last day on this wonderful, inspiring journey comes to
an end I feel blessed that we were able to impact the lives we did on this
trip. Had we not ventured out across the country we wouldn’t have learned about
what makes Avera Cancer Center in Idaho Falls, Idaho so amazing and different
from other cancer centers, we wouldn’t have met Dr. Scot Ackerman of the
Ackerman Cancer Institute in Jacksonville, Florida whose cancer center holds
the first and largest proton therapy machine, one that required them to wait on
putting the room on the building till the machine was inside. Our adventures
meeting some of the youngest researchers at Moffit Cancer center and what they’re
finding out in Melanoma and Breast Cancer research. My favorite parts of the
trip included meeting patients we had helped through UCAAN, coming face to face
to the voices of people who may have been lost without us.
Meeting new cancer
survivors in other states as well who were passionate about what we’ve been
doing through UCAAN and what we hope to do in the future, that support means
everything to us, it gives us the strength to persevere and move mountains for
these amazing warriors of cancer. Meeting new friends in Idaho, South Dakota, Connecticut,
Manhattan, Florida, Texas, Colorado & Nevada. Meeting clients we’ve helped
in Tennessee, Kentucky, New Jersey & California were amazing experiences.
We hope that as you continue to follow you will see what we’ve accomplished on
this wonderful trip and will better understand what we hope to do in the
future. We hope to raise more funds to help cancer patients NOW, funds for
financial needs that are extremely un-funded or barely funded. Financial
assistance for things that most people wouldn’t think about like child care, home
care and in home nursing care. One of the things I hoped to do on this journey
was cook a bunch of healthy meals daily, but I wasn’t able to accomplish this
with our long and late arrivals at hotels – in most cases I was exhausted and
my priority was getting the daily stories to you. So I hope to do this more
often once I get home, so we will have some healthy food recipes out there to
help those we work with!
Thank you again for joining us.
We hoped to visit 3 fabulous patients today but due to unforeseen
circumstances including the horrible fires in Santa Clarita, we won’t be able
to. However we will reschedule it for a future date. So, Doryn and I will leave
wonderfully gorgeous San Diego to head back home. I can’t believe we’ve been
gone for so long. I must admit that it will be wonderful to get back home to
sleep in my comfy bed.
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