Building Up

I'm trying to build up to the American Liver Foundation fundraising walk May 14th.

Within the past ten days, I've walked the length of Ocean Beach Pier, the San Diego Zoo Hoof and Horn path from the front entrance as far as the Polar Bears, and twice up and down two steep hills between my place and a local library branch. Good going, for me.

Reaching for a Goal

After years of wishing I were strong enough to take part in a walk to raise awareness about Hep C and liver disease, I believe I can do it. I signed up for the American Liver Foundation's Liver Life Walk, May 14th in San Diego. There will be walks all over the USA this Spring.

This one is short, as walks go, and has the added effect of entertaining the bonobos and orangutangs as we walk through the San Diego Zoo.

I walk in gratitude for my own recovery, and indignation that prevention, treatment and research still lack funding. Some others walk as memorials, for people they have lost when the vital functions of the liver have stopped.

Balloons and tears ahead.