My nightly ritual before bed, sitting on the patio. I had a long but easy day at work today. When I got off I rushed home and got started on the newsletters. Im 90% done with those. I also counted and tallied the yard sale proceeds. We netted $313.25. Not quite what we needed for our non profit but it sure helps. I received a message from a lady on my friend list who was showing me her conversation with another friend of hers who is new to our page. It started out, why does everyone talk about Kris? Who is that? So with that I realized there are many new people on the page and you may not know who Kris is. Im Kris. I am Bekahs momma and I run the foundation appropriately named for my daughter. Im known for my extremely long boring posts where I rant, or I get things off my chest and at times let out my broken heart. Im also known for my frankness and blunt truth about childhood cancer and ovarian cancer. I call these my novels. Bekahs dad hates it but thats ok. LOL He is in Oklahoma and Im in Kansas so we all good! LOL. Have made many enemies because they didnt like who I am but in the bigger picture Ive mad many many many friends. I dont talk to them everyday but I see their posts and do my best to watch their lives from afar. Those friends are why I can not worry so much about those who dont like me. I dont expect everyone to like me. However, I do expect everyone to be aware. Be aware of these cancers killing children everyday. Liking me or not will not change whats happening. But together we can change it. I run Bekah & Friends in a particular way and its always for the kids and educating those who are new to the world. And when we can, lending a hand. Bekah is my daughter. She was diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer in Sept of 2012 and we lost her 92 days later. She was mommas girl 550%. A healthy teen who loved music, phones, and video games she gave a lot of herself to cheering people up. Growing up she was a little dancer and cheerleader. Her shelf has 17 trophies on it countless ribbons and several medals from her competions. Just a great kid that even at the end of her life was more worried about her momma than she was herself. I was a widowed mom raising her best I could after losing my late husband in 2009 on my 38th birthday. Bekah was the one who got home from school that day and found Jerry dead. She learned true emotional strength early on. During that time it was just Bekah & I trying to learn life all over again. So with that out of the way, Ill move on. Still so much on my mind. We received word of Amanda nearing the end of her battle with Ovarian Cancer. To many, especially those that dont know her like me think its just sad. We just pray and want to make a change. But for me I think about a managerie of things. Besides the obvious connection to losing my own child to this damn cancer I think of her and those in her life. How their lives will not be the same without her in it. I think about the why. And I sit here thinking, what else can I do to raise awareness? There is has to be a way. Just has to be! Everyone knows what pink is about. Everyone knows what to do and what to look for. Even those who dont carry the risk factors know. But Ovarian Cancer doesnt seem to be at the top of the list to know. Every woman on this planet should know. I have 500 postcards wrapped and sitting in the house and the news of Amanda makes me think, how many people dont have one and could it save just one more? Bekah wanted everyone to have one so they will know. I just feel tense at the thought of her nearing the end and I dont even know her. But damn it she deserves life just like anyone else! This is another reason we have to hunker down and find a web designer. Our website has gone by the wayside and yes its partially my fault but I want to change that. I want to be taken serious. I want it to be easy for any woman to come and request one of those postcards. So much I could do if I could just find the right people to help me. I called the hosting company about how much they would charge me to do it......I about choked and had nothing in my mouth at the time either. How difficult could it be considering wordpress is the chosen method these days and it doesnt entail full on HTML coding like back in the day when I learned? Now I could kick myself for not going and learning the new systems of web design. But I have to believe The Lord with provide for the Foundation. As you can imagine Im just a little off tonight. I dont want to see a family faced with that cancer ever! Enough sacrifice has been made now lets change things. Lets show Ovarian Cancer it can no longer be silent because we wont let it. So much in the near and far future of Bekah & Friends. Please continue to watch for us. But for now, let just keep Amanda in the front of our minds. Peace, Kris
Posted on: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 04:43:26 +0000
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