I keep saying I am going to update this blog more often, it seems I only come here when I feel the need to honor a patient hero or lost angel.

Well it is another one of those times. I saw my good friend Eric this week, he showed up at a 5k that benefits the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. He came wearing his Team in Training T-shirt. It was only after he left that I realized this was Chris's, Sean's mom's first mother’s day without her son and this is the week he would have graduated high school.

I titled this entry 5 minutes, we can't let these things come and go. The impact is much more than a passing 5 minute thought, there comes a time you cannot ignore that we can do better, whenever we combine our efforts.

We can't just think about it for 5 minutes, because in 5 minutes another person in the U.S. receives a blood cancer diagnosis.

We can't stop saying "we are thinking of you and your loss." We think it will open old wounds; we don't want to upset the person who lost such a treasure. The truth is probably not more than 5 minutes pass without their thought going to the one they lost. Like they didn't cry that morning or have a happy thought of the times they were together. Not for 5 minutes do they ever forget, nor should we. 

I ask you to honor Sean and take your first 5 minutes and read the following article and watch the video. It will be the most important 5 minutes you spend today.

Check out the article and the link below to a video honoring Sean Hargreaves.

May 14, 2007

Classmates remember lost pals

BY J.D. GALLOP
FLORIDA TODAY

Alyssa Esposito gently blew the tiny bubbles into the warm afternoon sky, in remembrance of a friend known as much for his team spirit as his sense of humor.

The tribute for 18-year-old Sean Hargreaves came at the end of an hourlong baccalaureate service Sunday for Melbourne High's Class of 2007. Hargreaves, who would have graduated this year, was a soccer player who lost a long struggle with cancer in December.

"It was good to have everyone out there with the bubbles," Esposito said after the service. "I think he would have laughed if he saw us blowing bubbles." About 175 people turned out for the religious service, including about 50 students in cap and gowns, at First United Methodist Church.

Twenty-one-year teacher Denise Dabrowski-Buchanan was one of several speakers. She talked about life lessons during the service; later, as she watched the bubble drift by, she remembered students who had died.

"It never gets any easier," she said. "We try to tell the kids to enjoy every year."

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