Yikes

Hi, my name is Melissa and it's been 2 months since my last blog post. I truly am a bad blogger!

I have 3 that I've started writing but haven't published, so those will be coming out in the next couple days. Going to try to get better about posting at least once per week, I promise!

LFNC 5K 6/6/10

From June 6, 2010

Today two of my friends and I did the Lupus Foundation of Northern California's 5k walk/run. All the money raised went to help fund education for Lupus as well as research for a cure. I was diagnosed with Lupus 10 years ago this November, so for me the walk was very personal. Many, if not all of the people participating had some personal connection to the disease. We spoke to a gentleman who's mother-in-law passed away a year ago after a nasty battle with meningitis. Randy witnessed a mother (who has Lupus) filming her daughter as she finished the race on the mom's behalf, both with tears streaming down their faces.

Throughout the walk I kept putting myself down thinking it's "no big deal". I kept comparing myself to a man who received his kidney a week before I did and is riding his bike across the country to bring awareness to organ donation. I kept thinking "this 5k is so insignificant and I'm such a slacker compared to him". Not taking into account the fact that he was a marathon runner, and triathlete before his illness took his kidneys.

We finished the walk in well under an hour, just finishing was our only goal. I had tried to walk the exact same 5k 8 years earlier (2 years after I was diagnosed with Lupus) and was unable to finish the walk at that time. To be able to finish it this time was an amazing accomplishment and I look forward to doing it again next year and bettering our time. Thanks so much Staci & Laura for supporting and walking beside me, you ladies are the best. And thanks to Andrew and Randy for cheering us on from the sidelines, I love you guys!