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After extensive tests, they diagnosed a brain tumor, she told the hushed gathering of ACS Public Education volunteers and staff. I spent a year recovering from that. Over the years I’ve known what it’s like to be totally bald three times, to be 40 pounds underweight, to be nauseated for 72 hours straight because of chemotherapy and to be burned by radiation.
Then, about three years ago. Judy got some more grim news from her doctor: She has leukemia, and a kind of leukemia for which the survival rate is very low.
I don't go from town to town telling this sad little tale to evoke pity or sympathy, she declared. I tell it to say ‘thank you’, because it’s due to people like you—all across the United States—who went out and educated others about cancer, that I have had these last 11 years. That I am here today.
Each one of you is a potential miracle to someone like me. Keep working, because there are others, even younger than I... less verbal, perhaps, but just as grateful. Because the best gift is a gift ol time.
She left her audience with this suggestion: If you really want to find out if you're good and kind and decent, do something for someone, knowing full well that the person is never eoine to find out about it.
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