Why Leala Relays for Life

Why does team captain Leala Spire gather her energy and tackle the pressures of organizing a successful Relay for Life campaign every year?

2013 is her seventh year participating in Second Life's Relay for Life drive and her third year as a team captain! Let's find out.

Team Captain Leala Spire shares her story:I have experienced what the words "it's cancer" does to a family.

I have sat by the bed of the man who I thought could do anything, including beat cancer. I lost that man, my Dad, in July 2005.

I have celebrated with my Mom at beating cancer, near 20 years ago. This January, as the new year started, I looked at her and said, "don't worry it's gonna be ok" when she heard the cancer was back.

I've lost Aunts, Uncles, Brothers-in-law, and my Mother-in-law to the monster we know as cancer.

It is for them that I relay. To honor them. To remember them. To keep fighting for them.

I also relay for another reason. Beautiful nieces and handsome nephews whom I relay and fight for so that they never hear the word "Cancer" when it comes to them without knowing that it is going to be OK.

I want them to know, there is a cure.

I want to help make the fear, sadness, loss, and pain that is now tied to the word cancer Disappear Forever!!!
Please help me fight and win!!! Make a donation, not only for your future but the future of all those you love.
Thanks :) - Leala