Susan Butcher moved to Denver from Cambridge, MA when she was 17. When she was 20 she moved to Alaska, 50 miles away from the closest road, to raise and race sled dogs. She won the Iditarod three times in a row before she retired to raise a family. "If I set the goal to win, I expect to win," she wrote. " I do not know the word 'quit,'" she said later. "Either I never did, or I have somehow abolished it from my language."
Sadly I was reading about her in Cancer Today magazine (that I ended up stealing from the radiology waiting room) and found out she died of acute myeloid leukemia at age 51, just eight months after her diagnosis. Her husband said in the article "She lived more in 51 years than a lot of people do in 100."
I'm so anxious to get on with my life without tubes and meds and doctor's appointments every week. I want it to be good.
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