Pedal the Cause

I'm back, for my 8th year with GynOnc Teal on Wheels - time is flying by!  I don’t think anyone is prepared for the call when it happens. I can still hear my call as clearly as the day she called: “I’ve been trying to figure out all morning how to tell you this… you have ovarian cancer, it’s aggressive, we need to get you to an oncologist quickly.” I was just 36 years old.  I was a healthy, single mom of two young children. This can’t be happening to me is all I could think.  I knew without a doubt at that point in time, Siteman Cancer Center is where I wanted to be treated.  

In my first year I took on the Century ride and the time has come again for me to up my game and clip-in for 100 miles on the road for cancer research!  I don't ride solely for myself... my mother (TNBC), my father (Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma + Prostate Cancer), both of my grandfathers (lung cancer) and one grandmother (BC).... it's a family thing at this point.  We all deserve a world where hearing the words "you have cancer" doesn't feel like a death sentence because treatments exist to give us all a fighting chance at overcoming.  We deserve a world without cancer!