By Anne Hays 

60 miles leaves sore feet and a healing heart

 

October 1, 2014

TUTU TIME – Yes, Rob Hays of Shelter Bay wore this getup in public. In Seattle, even. With his beard dyed pink to match, he kept his promise to his wife, Anne, and dressed up to walk the five miles of the Susan G Komen three-day walk with her.

On a leisurely cruise back to Alaska to attend our youngest son’s wedding, we were notified that our middle son’s wife, Bree, had taken a turn for the worse in her 16-year battle with breast cancer.

Bree was first diagnosed when she was 20, and she spent the next 16 years battling various forms of breast cancer and undergoing just about every treatment available.

She was deemed cancer free twice. She and Zac had two delightful little boys, but in June of 2013, she died. She was 36.

I decided I needed to do something to help find a cure. A friend had walked the Susan G. Komen 60-mile, th...



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