Kayren’s Story
« Our Why | Posted on 09/23/2009 03:15 pm by admin
Zoe Bliss
Kayren Babcock, Team Tiara Walker 2008 & 2009
After having 3 boys I found out in 2007 that I was going to have a baby girl. I had never thought much about wanting a girl (loved having boys)- but once I found out -WOW!
Zoe came into this world 7 weeks early, and she was teeny tiny. She was so perfect though – perfect little lips, perfect little hands, perfect little everything, so much so that my husband and I laughed that she even had perfect little “teeny tiny tatas”.
I watched her struggle for the first 3 weeks of her life and I knew I never wanted anything to ever happen to her. I felt that way about the boys too, but there is something about watching your daughter with all the needles, IVs, feeding tubes, etc… that make your heart just ache to do something.
I guess in my heart I knew my boys were tough (you know testosterone and all), but she melted my heart. I knew I never wanted to see her anywhere close to hurt like that.
My dear friend D’Lyn had been challenging me to walk the 3-Day with her for over a year as she had taken on the journey because of her mother Sue. I decided that after having Zoe this would be my chance to do what I could in hopes that Zoe would never have to hear the words “you have breast cancer“.
Even as I write that for the millionth time it seems – it sounds so ugly to me- “breast cancer”. Of all the things to have, why take part of what makes a woman a woman!
She is my Zoe Bliss- My Life of Happiness- her face should never have to be sad or scared, and her heart should never have to hurt, and her body should never have to change because of this ugly disease.
So I walk now- I walk because I dream of a world without breast cancer. It isn’t a new dream for anyone- 44 years before Zoe was born my grandmother was fighting breast cancer (and she won by the way). My Aunt Caroline is fighting it right now, my friend Lissa is fighting it, and my mom’s friend Carol Sue is fighting it.
It isn’t a new battle but it is one that should and will be obliterated. As long as my legs and feet work and I can walk, as long as I can tell people how passionately I feel about this disease, as long as I know that there are groups out there like Susan G Komen – I will try my best to protect Zoe. I will walk for her, with her- whatever it takes.
Imagine a world without breast cancer- I do!
