My wife, my sister-in-law, my mother-in-law, my mother, my aunt, my wife, and my mother.
My mother, my great aunt, and my last words to my mom was, I would make a difference with
cancer, and I never stopped.
Well, I originally got involved with making strides against breast cancer after I lost
my mother in 1994.
She was 55.
I was 22, and I stood in the middle of the hot show, cried my eyes out, and said, I got
to do this again.
I still volunteer every year for making strides against breast cancer.
So we've been doing it for 17 years.
It's so inspirational and powerful even after all these years.
You must do it.
It's amazing.
The support is fantastic.
The energy, just to see the survivors, is inspiring.
So it helps you take back the power, because when you get told you have cancer, you kind
of lose power.
Doctors are telling you when to be here, there, and everywhere, and I make strides in memory
of my mother, but also for myself now.
We are happy to be here today supporting two survivors, my wife, Susan Tabb, and my mother,
Marcia O'Bourke.
Today, I'm so happy to say that she's a survivor, clean three years now.
It's really nice to know that we're helping other people's lives.
We all know somebody's been touched by cancer, whether directly or indirectly.
My mother died of breast cancer.
Lost my sister-in-law four years ago yesterday.
My great aunt was diagnosed with breast cancer.
This past April, she passed away.
Today, I'm walking with my volleyball team, because she loved volleyball a lot.
It was her dream to see me play, but she's never really seen me play, because she was
always in and out of treatment centers.
She has my support.
I know she's out there looking down on me, and I love her, and I just want to share
a story.
I want to continue every year, forever, until I die.
It's sad.
We should have been over this already, and we're still fighting it.
I think that a cure is coming soon, and already there's been so much progress that's been
made with research, but there's still a long way to go, and that's why we come out every
year in support making strides.
