I’ve been training in preparation for the 2025 Susan G Komen 3 Day series. It’s been a hard season to walk into.
I’m regularly asked the question why do you walk? Why do you keep going back? I wish that answer was something profound or clinical, scientific, or even research base. But truly, I keep going back because the pink bubble has become my happy place. Immersing myself in a world where the other people around me know either firsthand or on a co-survivor or level the hardships I’ve been through. They know that I’m still in pain and then I still need them to clap me on the back and tell me I’m doing a good job. And at the same time, they will stand on dining chairs and clap the last Walker home with tears in their eyes because they know our work is not done. They know that the reason we continue to come together each year and fundraise and walk and wear crazy pink outfits is because the people we love are still dying from breast cancer. A few weeks ago I lost one of my 3 Day friends, Beth. Beth was a constant face on the San Diego 3 Day page and through that I got to know her story. Beth was a 13 year breast cancer survivor when her breast cancer came back with vengeance. Despite several rounds of treatment, she walked 60 miles in November. She stood up on a stage in front of 2,500 other walkers shared her story and told us to stop being afraid of speaking out.
We lost Beth a few weeks ago. My heart hurts. I want this to STOP happening. I want to stop getting phone calls from my mom about people we know being diagnosed with cancer. I want to stop receiving messages from people I knew in high school about how they’re going to get Mammograms for a lump.
I want it to stop.

So I keep signing up. I keep pushing my fundraising envelope because I truly believe that the research Susan G Komen his backing is making a difference. On top of that I believe that the environment they are creating in the pink bubble is what’s going to change the way survivors are being “treated”. We are no longer fighting in silence and hiding our scars. I am so thankful to them for creating an environment in which that was acceptable and celebrated. I LOVE it here.

This year I will be walking in Boston (August) and in San Diego (November). To date I have raised just shy of $75,000 in my lifetime 3 day fundraising.
Let’s go for the big one. Please support me in stretching my goal to meet $100,00 lifetime donations by the end of 2026. (That’s $25,709.60 incase your doing the math)
If you work for a corporation please ask me about corporate matching!!!
Let’s make a big splash for Beth and show cancer we are NOT AFRAID.
All my love,
Emily