Fighting Fire with Water

There is a video you should watch, because it's amazing. It's called "Fire with Fire" and it's about doctors and researchers using the HIV virus to fight Leukemia cells in the blood of a six year old girl named Emma. It's a short film, but it inspires me every day because that research was funded in part by the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.  That means that athletes, like myself, who trained and participated in marathons and triathlons and walks and the Hudson River Swim for Life, helped make that research possible.  The money was raised long before I joined the team; but my predecessors gave a little bit of themselves and gave that doctor the ability to turn something deadly into a tool for healing.

It's deadly hot here in New York this week. It's been over 90 for more than a week. All I want to do is swim, to use the water to refresh and cool myself.  I told a friend the other day that I just wanted to sleep in the Hudson, tied to a buoy.  This morning, I re-watched this video today and I realized that the Hudson too is a tool for healing. While Carl June is fighting fire with fire, the Hudson River Swim for Life TNT team fights fire with water.  Every time I step into the Hudson and train for the three-mile swim in September, I join with all those people who have trained and fought and begged their friends for money to help fight cancer and all those doctors and researchers who are getting us closer to doing just that.

I hope you'll join me, in the water, on the shore as a cheerleader, through a donation to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society or by sharing this with your friends.  Together, I have no doubt can cure cancer! Please, help me fight fire with water.

xo