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For my good friend Hannah. She is very nice friend and a very nice cosplayer. I normally don’t do this but its for a good cause. HELP HER

han-pan:

A little over a year ago, my grandmother was diagnosed with breast cancer. It was absolutely devastating. My grandfather died of cancer in 2006, the man who was always bigger than life and meant so much to me. Both of these people I remember as the entire structure of my childhood: four times a year we drove the eight (awful) hours to visit Grammy and Granddad in southern Virginia. I spent summers in hot Virginia, making trouble with my cousins. I have traveled some of the world with these two amazing people…losing Granddad was more than enough, but to lose Grammy as well? I couldn’t take it.

But I was in my first year of law school. I didn’t have the money, the time, the ability to fly out to Colorado to see her, support her through her surgery and therapy. All I could do was to email her (she was often too tired to type a reply) and play Words with Friends. My grandmother, who started a non profit to educate children in rural Ethiopia. My grandmother, who was my first buddy on AOL Instant Messenger. My grandmother, who treated me to a trip to Spain, and shared with me her love for Turkey and Turkish culture. My grandmother, who means so much to me and was in such a fragile state, she could not even email me back.

But she got through.

She made it through the surgery and the therapy and has been cancer free since last summer. She is traveling again, going to Africa again, studying birding and sports, enjoying her pooch.

I felt like I hadn’t done enough. All I could do for her was play an Internet game? No, there had to be more.

I decided to walk in the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer in Washington, D.C. in her honor. I committed to raise $1,800 in order to walk 39 miles with her name on my sleeve. The walk is the first weekend in May, just over two weeks away.

I’m not even halfway there.

I don’t make it a habit to ask for money. I work hard, I donate to the causes I think are important, but this time, I need your help.

Please, reblog and help me reach this goal. If you can spare a $5 donation to my walk for Grammy, I will be able to walk for the woman who has been such a strong influence of my life. I will also walk for someone in YOUR life who has been affected by breast cancer; just let me know in the note the name you would like me to wear.

Avon donation site