The following exerpt by Lance Armstrong from”Saving Your Life” broke the all-time page view record on CNN’s site just this weekend. As some will know Flowerbud.com has been a very active supporter of Mr. Armstrong and his foundation over the years and has contributed many thousands of yellow roses to cancer survivors around the US as they peddle, run and walk across finish lines at the Challenge Series. It has been our privilage to have participated. Last summer at a dinner held In the Tiger Woods building on the Nike Campus in Beaverton, Oregon, Lance Armstrong informed the assembled that with biking now a hobby, lobbying on cancer related issues would be his proffession. Well, as good as his word it looks as if he is now hard at work at the coal-face! We wish him the very best.
Lance Armstrong, one of cycling’s all-time greats and possibly the world’s best known cancer survivor, founded the Lance Armstrong Foundation with the goal of inspiring and empowering people with cancer. He now campaigns for more government funds for cancer research and treatment.
AUSTIN, Texas (CNN) — I’m not known for my patience. Patience is a polite quality and often appropriate, but it rarely gets things done. Impatience, however, is the hunger for results and intolerance for excuses and delays. Impatience got me over countless mountain passes, across the finish line in New York City and through four rounds of ruthless chemotherapy 10 years ago.
Yet this election season I patiently waited to hear a candidate for office explain to constituents what he or she planned to do about one of the leading threats to the health and well-being of all Americans — cancer. My patience was greeted with silence. (more…)