I volunteered last year with St. Baldrick's to honor my sister and her battles with childhood cancer and the battle she was having with ovarian cancer. This year I am again volunteering but in honor of her memory as she passed away on January 25, 2010. She had Ewings Sarcoma and Osteogenic Sarcoma at two different times in her childhood and then lived a very productive life in remission even after her diagnosis of ovarian cancer in January of 2001. Some may not understand, others will completely "get it", when I say that my sister did not succumb to the cancer. Not mentally, emotionally, spiritually and not even physically. She was suffering from cancer when she passed away but that was not what took her. She never let her "handicap" make her handicapped. She married, adopted children, volunteered hours and hours of her time to make life better for other children and she "chose to be happy". At the time of both her Ewings Sarcoma diagnosis there were experimental treatments at M.D. Anderson and our parents gave permission for her to be involved in those. She was the first person to have a hip replacement on a radiated area and, hopefully because of this, many other children were able to keep their limbs instead of having the standard treatment at that time, amputation. I hope that her life will give hope and inspiration to other children and their families that they can beat this. They can live full, productive lives. They may not have what we consider to be long lives but they can live quality lives in the time given. We all can....my sister showed me it can be done.