CHRISTINA
As soon as you meet Christina, you wish you had met her earlier. Her dark hair and bright eyes draw you in and her infectious smile keeps you there. Everything about her is welcoming and Christina is very easy to talk to. I had the pleasure of briefly interacting with her at morning track before she was diagnosed with colon cancer.
One day she was there running along Mountain Drive and a few days after that our group received word of her illness. How unfair life can be, how lucky it made us all feel, how sorry we were, but she would never want us to be sorry for her. Visiting Christina at her home, I met her family. Three absolutely beautiful children cuddled around her. She looked radiant. She spoke even and steady about her diagnosis. She smiled. Well, what did I expect?
I used to work on a GYN/Oncology floor and we had several patients transition through our floor who on paper may have been just like Christina. However, they were nothing like Christina who is perfectly and permanently positive. A strength that one cannot just prescribe or will upon someone. Instead, it is embedded in the fighter and I believe it makes all the difference.
Christina has been selected as the beneficiary of The Friendship Paddle and nearly all money raised will go directly to her family. Please help support Christina.
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