cancer is in remission, but i still need a little help …

“The soul is all we’ve got.”

That was the last thing my friend Kel­ly told me be­fore she passed away from can­cer last March. It’s for­ev­er etched in my mind. She was my one can­cer bud­dy, the only one who tru­ly un­der­stood me when I was in the mid­dle of my own bat­tle.

She also told me, “Peo­ple like you and me, we can’t live like we have all the time in the world, be­cause we don’t. Things can change for us any minute. You have to live your life NOW.”

That also stuck with me, es­pe­cial­ly as I strug­gle to find bal­ance be­tween the re­spon­si­bil­i­ties of every­day sur­vival and liv­ing my life on my terms.

My hope is that you can help me with the last part.

I fi­nal­ly have the op­por­tu­ni­ty to cel­e­brate my re­mis­sion from can­cer – and my LIFE – in a way I nev­er dreamed, and I’m hop­ing you can help me get there.

At the end of Feb­ru­ary, not only will I get to see the city of my dreams, I’ll get to at­tend the fi­nals for one of the biggest dance com­pe­ti­tions in the world: Juste De­bout.

This is very im­por­tant to me be­cause my fa­vorite dancers, Les Twins, are judges for the com­pe­ti­tion. And if you know me, you know the enor­mous im­pact they’ve had on my life, from long be­fore treat­ment to now. (More on what they mean to me in a fu­ture post.)

A dear friend has helped with the tick­ets, but be­cause I’ve strug­gled to make ends meet due to the chron­ic, last­ing ef­fects of can­cer, I still need a lit­tle help get­ting and stay­ing there.

Every lit­tle bit helps, so even a small do­na­tion goes a long way! I don’t need to go shop­ping at fan­cy stores, or eat the most ex­pen­sive meals, or buy a ton of sou­venirs – I just want to ex­pe­ri­ence Paris as more of a lo­cal, en­joy­ing the sim­ple plea­sures of fresh baked crois­sant (I will shed tears of hap­pi­ness when I take my first bite), and ex­plor­ing the city when we’re not at the event.

For more about my sto­ry, my bat­tle with can­cer, and if you are able to do­nate, please head over to my go­fundme page.

I’ll be for­ev­er grate­ful to any­one who can help me make this dream come true. Thank you for tak­ing the time to read and share this!

 

—kim­ber­ly a. morales

Flom­mist Kim­ber­ly A. Morales is a food and well­ness blog­ger, and pa­tron saint of cats. Copy­right © 2020 Kim­ber­ly A. Morales.

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