The Journey of Robin Roberts from ESPN


At the ESPYS on July 19, 2013, longtime ESPN journalist and host of ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’ Robin Roberts took the stage to accept the Arthur Ashe Courage Award, when she spoke about having strength and faith when life throws you challenges. Roberts is a survivor of breast cancer, which she first conquered in 2007, prior to battling a rare blood disorder, myelodysplastic syndrome.

Last fall, her sister Sally Ann donated bone marrow for a transplant that would save Robin’s life. Roberts became ESPN’s first black broadcaster in the 90s, and she will remain a pioneer and leader for many decades to come.

 


Robin Roberts’ Journey

Robin Roberts Receives Arthur Ashe Award

Transcript of the Video Robin Roberts Receives Arthur Ashe Award (Auto-generated):

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thank you thank you at this moment I’m
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and filled with such gratitude thanks to missus Obama for her forward sent to the
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broad for graciously
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adding to this immense honor my mama was from Akron Ohio
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and she loves her some King James and she’s smiling down on us right now
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so if a few thank you very much yeah
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it’s more I i couldnt can even begin to dream up when I began my career
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you heard me i i just wanted to be the best sports journalists that I could be
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I want to be a pro athlete
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that’s what I really wanted to be I want to be a pro athlete but there’s
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something
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there’s something called winner with a circuit yes ability
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that you must have so I am in awe
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up your bass the tropics read said to be in your company tonight and in the
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company of some
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some all dear friends at ESPN
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I realize there are many worthy upholding this
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honor others who have exhibited far more courage strength
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and resilience and it’s humbling for me to
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represent you tonight I draw strength from you you give me the courage to face
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down any challenge to know that when fears
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when fear Knox to let Favre answer the door
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those of us who are fortunate to have overcome some form of illness or
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adversity are often told
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that we are strong II didn’t find that strengthen my own
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it’s a quality that grew with every kind word up support every prayer
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every tree every email every phone call
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I gain strength from the doctors and nurses who checked on me long after
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their shift was over
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from those I knew another I may never know
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who took time out of their busy lives to reach out and let me know they were
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thinking at me that they were praying for me
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every step up my journey through it all I’ve learned that strange true strength
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is it when you face down life’s challenges on your own
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it’s when you take them on by accepting the help
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faith and love others and knowing you are lucky to have those
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Arthur Ashe was a dear dear friend of mine is you heard
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he taught me the importance of using the platform we were blessed to be given
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to be of service to others and he showed me show all a bus that
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to his selfless actions of the court you heard me mom used to say make a mess
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your message find the meaning behind whatever it is that you’re going to
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because
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everybody’s got something and I am grateful
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to bob i gur and Anne Sweeney for their compassion
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and support and helping me through my something
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for helping me deliver my message of hope
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and to be a simple love this too shall pass my family
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and dear friends man their unconditional love brings me to tears
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they make me believe that this is my five yr rather our fight
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my big sister
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sally-ann my donor I wouldn’t be standing here have I would be staying
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anywhere
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if it were not for you and I thank you for that
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it’s always this very easy to spot sis alice is always well I guess is yes yes
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good yes yes
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at cicis ounces to Sally will set you free
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I remember last year member when Jim Valvano was the first recipient of the
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Arthur Ashe Courage Award
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and I was standing backstage I was backstage the next presenter on
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after Jimmy fee when he accepted the honor with an inspiring speech that
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Texas all and still does
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that night in establishing the V Foundation for Cancer Research Jim said
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we need your help I need your help
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we need money for research it may not save my life
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it may save my children’s it may save someone
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you love and I’ve been blessed to achieve things in life I can never
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have imagined as a little girl growing up in Mississippi but most have all
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I never imagined that I’d be able to be standing here twenty years
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after Jimmy V’s speech and say that because a
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everyone who has responded to his challenge
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because the all the donations research and support mine
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is one of the wives has been saved
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and now I ask you to save someone else give strength to someone else join if
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you can the bone marrow registry
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donate to make more research possible take part in clinical trials as I have
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in my sister has
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at thanks to my dream team of doctors and nurses I now have
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I literally have my sisters DNA but all love you here tonight
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and you there at home in a specially my wonderful
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caring ESPN and ABC GMA family
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yes I have my sisters T&A but you always
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have my heart and I think you
Transcript of the video:
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good singer nanette
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if you know me personally you know that I admire Robin Roberts she’s a great
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woman and she’s a spider
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take a look at her journey her now Robin Roberts
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on a very special edition 2020 that you’re on a TC
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on Friday that you were a twenty seconds
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and meanwhile thank you my beloved mother always told her four children
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make your mass
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your message well for much of this past year I felt like my life was a complete
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mess
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but tonight I am so grateful to be back and doing well
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and i wanna share with you what I’ve learned I’ve met some amazing people on
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the way
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they’ve given me courage and filled my heart
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ultimately they taught me the true meaning
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%uh home weather was a hospital room
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my native Gulf Coast or this TV studio
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so I hope you’ll come with me as I take you on an incredible journey
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that started exactly a year ago Ford
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yeah
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until you come home I have been waiting 174 days to say this
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good morning america. you never really get to see the patterns adventure
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understanding I hack
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635 a safe be breast cancer in 2007
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0 why would be there five years later
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I was covering one my favorite Channelside welcome once again the
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Huskers right hospital I
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it had no idea I was about to be tested like never before
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and I’ll see inside
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people in our lives but I did how
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exhausted I was this was
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a Bou wary
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exhaustion difficult to focus
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difficult concentrate and at that moment I said you know
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I’m really gotta I want to see my doctor right away
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since I was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent chemotherapy
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I have grown accustomed to getting tested but this was different
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I went to see the the specialist or the end
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%uh March and that was the first time
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I heard MTS and I was like
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have have IMATS no in DS
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and he spelled it out for me myelodysplastic syndrome
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this completely foreign to me and I did
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the thing that we tell people not to do I went on the internet
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and I had a reaction
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that some man I just start crying
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tightest
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poop telling my family was the hardest part
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especially sharing the news with my mom who was ill
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it was very difficult to call my mom
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time the baby had already put them through
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then quite a bit with my breast cancer journey
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goin’
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I kept on going on the air fell
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by
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but on the inside I was in turmoil
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I’m ironically at the very same time
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good morning america. respect is stored High Point becoming the number one
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morning show
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after 852 weeks when people see this picture
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they don’t see it the same way I see it because on that same date
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is when I got the official
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diagnosis for MDS scope
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two main number one we have a big party that night
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and that’s what it was like for me April 19th
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2012 soon the reality of my diagnosis became more clear
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in the computer its there was a graph
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and tourists one-year two years and a dot in the middle
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and the doctor kept pointing to that
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dot in the middle team one year two years this
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and I said what’s that and the doctor said
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if you don’t do anything that is your life
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expect stick and I’m like
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away from the office for quite a few hours
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and I turn on my blackberry my phone
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there are several messages and calls from the office and I
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where recalling Ben Sherwood from the car head he said you’re interviewing the
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president tomorrow
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at the white house I Mike arm
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hope ok hope okay an isometric been
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very excited can take it back to you
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I’ll call you back I remember putting the phone down and I remember thinking
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that is so strange something’s going on there something going on palomas present
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house love you mom that’s okay
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again no one knows all these things that are going on
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and in a sit down and pass the president a
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are you still oppose to same-sex marriage he mixes his store
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response I think same-sex couples should be able to get me through a Mickey and
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Minnie
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here too sheesh all I can really think about was finding a bone marrow match
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immediately I reached out to my sisters Dorothy and Sally M
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the old one it can be a match when only thirty persona siblings are
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so many people in this country depend on donations from strangers
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hoping for max like the 1i would get extremely humbling
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so fine just a quick read 10th
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after an agonizing wait my prayers were answered
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sally-ann was a perfect match its
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very hard for me to except
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this being the giver
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CS thanks to receiving but
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it’s a great gift scripture
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texts my
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daughter Judith said so many people mom wonder what their purpose is in life
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and now you know your purpose your purpose
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is to give bone marrow to your sister Robin
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you were born for this
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now I could begin my preparation for a bone marrow transplant
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accounting series and daily chemotherapy sessions to wipe out
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my entire immune system so it can be built back from scratch
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with new life from Sally and stem cells
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that after you recover from friends like you actually get her allergies
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you actually will get her lifetime we won’t get her case for music I
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promises promises laptop they also knew I had reached the point where I could no
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longer keep my diagnosis a secret from the public
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how would I tell the viewers and how would I do it
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or something else in my personal life was falling apart
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I’m going to leave happy P today is a gift from God
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in the church say Amen a man
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on the morning of june eleventh the outpouring of support from my family
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friends and colleagues like doctor rich Besser
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was overwhelming they gave me the strength I needed as I prepared to share
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with the world
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news above very personal nature sometimes
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treatment for cancer can lead to other serious
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medical issues and that’s what I’ve facing
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right now it is something that is called MDS
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but in sleep much the night before going over my head
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you know what I would say worried about how
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it would be received my big a sister
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this bay virtually perfect match
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for me and she is going to be my donor
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you gonna be my girl hand
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they remember seeing Diana rich let studio
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can spend a little time with them before making the announcement
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and we can a huddle together because for the longest time
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sister three of us %uh Diane and I have been down this road before
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when I battle breast cancer in 2007 and this is my family call ourselves that
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when Louise
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we thought we were a little still team yeah you have your back sister
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I know that you do then I know the it has been replaying
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I can’t watch it I’m cam ported
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millions of viewers
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did watch and the reaction to my nails better NDS
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was beyond what I could have ever imagined the day that I
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announced my diagnosis was also there began
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pre-treatment quality room
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home to grab for so many questions
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I decided to bring cameras along because no matter what would happen
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I wanted to share my story I’m
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question physical exams blood test
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and chemo were will let bliss camp we were
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doing this again as for that so it’s different for you
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the last time I had zero which is warmer and
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lose my here yeah I know this may be hard to believe but even the painful
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bone marrow test
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became routine this is my fourth
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cool mails yes came forward so
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you know good getting a little easier but no more
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up what to expect condoms and you know you can biondi
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you
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squirrel that you and I and II to omou
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woman yeah this poem I wrote sooo percent finished
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you they did awesome my oncologist doctor gayle rubles
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treats so many patients just like me she certainly knew how to make this easier
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yeah baby
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my GMA family and viewers also did everything they could
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to keep my spirits up here we are rocking
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the armbands and here’s why because I know the ball
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covers this
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piece to one’s here soon makes it easier to
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draw blood an almost too much to administer medication like the chiro
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I’m about to happen yell something I was not expecting
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my colleagues in viewers termite pic light cover into a fashion trend
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so I started being sent these really different my little pick %uh first it
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was funny to me how people were saying I was making fashion statement but now I’m
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just trying to keep it clean
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and there are a few viewers that word colleges pointed out to the pic lie was
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taken out
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on loved covers divers pretty you know what will you know you can have a
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my all along I was worried about selling aunt
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her tests and her fear needles that she and I want everyone around the country
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to know that
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being a bone marrow donor is a gift to you
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really couldn’t he have I have my kg I had my butt
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content line
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easy to use me are you scared no not skeered
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I don’t feel evening fear
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the procedure I I just totally trust
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that everything is going to work out
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sure you know you need be
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levy you second good
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just as I thought everything was finally in place for my transplant
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mom’s health took a turn my mother
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had suffered a stroke middle jhalak
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and I was going home every weekend at
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I don’t care if you’re too or 52
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when you’re sick you what your mommy you what you wanna be
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she knew that tomorrow
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12 Robin will begin attorney should take some medical use
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August 30th was my final day on GMA
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my GMA family my family they’re at home
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I love you and I’ll see you soon get the
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a
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Daugherty said a text and she said
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on her mother is on her way home
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her they’re playing could get there fast enough
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ones Sally and I
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made it home in time to be by mom side
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during her final moments from a decaf
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I got up im told her hand and she turned them
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do so aspirin there’s nothing like a mothers work
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my beloved mother laid to rest
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now it was time for me to face the unknown road ahead without her here
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it was time for the transplant I remember
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thing tips inducted rolls eyes
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was
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this leaves them his singles too
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nice just to be able to understand hi no
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paula has outlook.com
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time
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paper too
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in early September after Lehman harassed I returned to New York for my bone
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marrow transplant a tool I shave my head
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the day before I entered the hospital it was
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so dramatic last time and
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I wanted to be in control
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high-handed controlled I am deciding
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with my here goes on on the waiting room
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yes in a hospital bed for the fallout
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yeah I make this
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once in the hospital my underwear 10 consecutive days of intensive
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chemotherapy
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my constant companion an IV pole
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I could even see the pole for all the bags that were hanging are
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of a bit and so it was nutrition in their system white
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bag called lipids and
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it would come in the room when I could just smell it and it looked like
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arm white-out that’s how it was guru
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and but it was giving me life it was keeping me
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was keep me alive now I grew so attached to my IV pole
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I just had to give it a name friend went online and saw that the disco name for
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Robin is rush on this over sunday was a day with my
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IV pole that was all like Google to dispose of old
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Department who do like today you look for things you know putting up
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GI jane I love putting up signs uva
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whole yeen the Greek aisles and is all about visualizing and and seeing
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different things
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the morning a my transplant was a blur I
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tone remember I was in another place
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I was I was just you have to remember I had gone to 10
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consecutive days up chemotherapy
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I had nothing left
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yeah I was surrounded by Dorothy and selling and another love ones who were
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there to celebrate
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and witness this miraculous moment
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theater
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I feel although I love being here fall below are you going to secure morning
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with a syringe filled with millions of selling and stem cells
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my transplant doctor doctor Sergio Geralt
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gave me the gift of life I hear anybody else
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title see anybody else by desi doctor jerome
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any start inserting the syringe
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into a port I have my chest
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and I remember seeing tears he has mass comm remember seeing tips
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inducted year old science
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hand I can see that his mouth is moving the saying something
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I say a small prayer a small saying that both my wife and my
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mother live topping let God do is work going to work to mediate
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does capture the real sense of the moment the way this finally involves
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is a whole joint events that may be beyond components on a concall
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a power above us and our role is to do the best we can with
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the instruments that we have I think now’s a good time to say
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cosell ego a spelling
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you’re doing hmm your
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well you want to know what happens now I think yeah
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when you see the hell excellent health
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you will realize I had to go through it
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so to get to this the new after the transplant
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it began to sink in how much I was still deeply grieving mom
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the meantime
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you
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and yeah
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mother
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I feel bound
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she is
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I
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dollars on
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usual owned mom
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to you
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shooter so she could do
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more powerful for for you
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moo moo moo moo moo moo yeah
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beautiful want to you cozy with the cutest little girl
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I will never forget the 24-hour dedication of doctors and nurses working
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towards a miracle
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I’m a believer but no one said it would be easy
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for days and days following my transplant
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I was in isolation my grandma used to always say
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she loved the mornings and she looks quiet time
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boy did I have a lot to quiet time
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0 and I learned to appreciate it
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because I’ve always been just go in nonstop
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slowly I began to regain my physical strength
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and was able to sit in a chair just long enough for a second
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haircut good stuff really want to
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hmm
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honeymoons
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mmm
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am through through Bowl
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newsroom
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that’s all I know huh
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two killers from
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thank you good I’m if you move
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I’m
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you
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yes you
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whom
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moon
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freeh room
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room
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mom
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room
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do
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room
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you
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I’m it wouldn’t be long before I was back on my feet
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but what would life be like for me on the outside
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signed
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yeah
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go the day has come I can finally leave the hospital
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I word
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grab 0 hmm
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my saying goodbye to my fabulous medical team
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is bittersweet where’s the other foot up when I get home
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go take a wrong way over there was a Yahoo anniversary party
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yeah
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on sure after
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30 days a isolation I take my first breath
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a fresh air
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0
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amid the wind was blowing and feeling the way and
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and just feeling the hair
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it is washed over me so overwhelming that
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think it’s gone apply tell you all use the company or Galway
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abiola I I’ll
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0
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there is no place like home
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for the next few months day in and day out
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I would stay in my apartment a virtual bubble
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from the outside world away from the germs that could derail my healing
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little by little I began to add to my life
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building up my system and getting stronger
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after a long five months I was now ready to venture out and start
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giving back you
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see you
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now I could be the one to offer encouragement and this morning to
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someone early in recovery from the very same transplant I had
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gardens another reminder how
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close this strikes David Aponte is a colleague of mine
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a cell man at ABC News and look at his stats here
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thank you so I’m assuming I should be doing exactly where
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never give up thought ever give up and that’s what we’re doing see it’s nice to
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their to talk to somebody is it the same this this
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you gone through
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missus soccer kissing you guys know a girl that a significant is work that out
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all rolled the dice
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your family your forever family
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Dave it’s fine is just starting and thankfully he is doing well
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and offer him home well that’s just a blessing
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yeah thanks again another blessing something as simple as being able to sit
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down with my GMA Co Inc urs
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at the restaurant we’d even together so many times before
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sitting on the couch that they have the diagnosis
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something that you said Josh what I said about fighting
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you know that focus on the might that the frightening he said it’s a bar fight
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what I was going through we were going through together
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good morning everyone hello to robin at home we are you know I love it when
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every morning when you say
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you know robin at home curious mister roberts. I would love to have you share
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the fun
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and by sharing it Eve you know I helped countless
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people and that is a huge thing for us
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walk among the K my eggs
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so good on word my waking up one of mine
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but I knew that before I would be able to return to the sack
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and to my GMA family
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it was time to go home and I needed to do that
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for I couldn’t come home to GMA
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many did missus
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beyond my family’s home turf to see
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someone the oldest friends I’m ever had the Gulf Coast is my home
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grab I wanted to be with my family for Superbowl reunion weekend
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and they’re also so many people to fame Southeastern Louisiana University
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day are making it happens
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although bone marrow donor drives like swapping from Robert have my beloved
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alma mater
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and be the match thousands of people
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stepping up to be donors the other outpouring
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of love and so many people wearing those bracelets to show their support
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when I see someone wearing the bracelet
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this is something that tugs at my heart lied
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love power presents skiing back home was not just a big step for me
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emotionally but physically to I have the flagellum new system
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have a newborn baby good to see you
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yeah I gotta tell you following my doctor’s orders to avoid germs is not
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easy
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especially around lots of people like these wonderful supporters
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i jus wanna hug
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many out here on this month watch GMA broadcast live
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from your I do not blind
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I 400 I’m proud owner
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you I’ve been out of congress to I’m southern
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it’s what we do it is hard
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XP like the happiest like a so
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your thank you so nice because I know what I will pick you
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looking at me I could so I’m getting better
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because the way you look at me is like you know I’m back
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%uh the truth is that while I believe
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I will be back mix deep down inside
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I just didn’t her
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I wasn’t really sure that I’d never can travel to
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familiar road from New Orleans to my childhood home and Pass Christian
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Mississippi
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and coming home after a parent’s death is something most of us have to face it
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one time or another and
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time
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I hope sharing this moment might show how overcoming loss is possible
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the even under the worst circumstances
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let’s go inside thankfully my sister dorothy was fair for me to lean on
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its its
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lowell
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Google
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its
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she knows that interest happy she thought their
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its well are
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scum if it’s fair for texts
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to slow cooker work new doll
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I am going to miss I’m on sitting right here the most
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I know
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there you go you I think about that ok
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time the evils were in New York number last visits and we went to
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a recording studio at her request in seeing play the piano in you saying and
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0 us
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we problem other
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al-marri’s she could just sit down
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Francisco I I nerve got to come together here with my sisters and my big brother
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butch
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is another energizing step in my healing process
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memory mounting
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without mom we have to make a concerted effort
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to stay close and and I think that that’s our necks
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journey if you if you will to continue that
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close-knit family which I believe that we
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we r the outpouring of love for people who I just are even know a barely know
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stop it means a
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what’s your sister love you sister how’s your sister doing you
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are on the road to spectacular
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the the darkest hours always before the dawn
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and it’s a new day deemed
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day
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I 3 entirely shooters
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he sat down with him you saw my house has teamed
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I was feeling ready but getting back to me a good cheer
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would be the next big step
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I was finally starting to feel truly like myself again
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almost ready to go back to the life I’d left behind
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but I first wanted to take another stab trying to place the meaning of this
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experience in my life
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I needed the huddle with my dear friend Diane
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and forth
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dozens I relief some things never change how we should your life as you step by
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jimmy and i know i buttons button
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know i’m always write a good i cant so
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when you wake up in the morning what’s different now
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I would wake up an almost kinda like barely open when I go home I gotta feel
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today oh I still feel yucky
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so now to wake up and to feel
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as close to normal
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as I haven’t been such a long time but is that close to normal
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you feel pretty much like myself mean but dumb
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and no pain whatsoever I have always been
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an optimist and I will say this: to people who when they’re facing at
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a tough challenge being optimistic is like a muscle
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taken stronger bookings you don’t think you can learn it you can learn up my
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I think in time I think you can be aware over a bit I bill
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I’ve been an optimistic person home my wife and I know that drive some people
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crazy
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you know I specially like morning morning people like how can you I’m come
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in in the morning and to still do now Mike I am love
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coming in and I love the morning I love all that and there’s some people who are
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a little
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from Pier um in the morning from
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a few I mean I’m apart from don’t talk to me
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I don’t know why you think I’m you I think that it can be
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I think it’s just easier if you
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if you’ve done it all your life for the majority of your life
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I think it just makes it easier for Windows tough times como
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the one-time I thought you were trying to
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you you were trying to make it okay for me was when you tell me the story
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I’ve the nurse saying your name
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name I remember one particular reaping not feeling well at all
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and chests slipping away
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and I was in this coma like state
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and then all of a sudden as clear as all get out
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I heard my name Robin
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Robin and it for some workers helping you remember so I was so we’re different
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and I just remember opening my eyes and my sweet nurse Jenny
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this always had a mask on so good to see their eyes her eyes like this
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forward since its kinda look at you know how’re
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am I going to get through this how am I going to be
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be better but did you think at that moment you had a choice
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if she hadn’t been there I was thinking about my mom a lot
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and in fact truth be known it for some thoughts my mom
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calling my name that was my mom
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type that was my mom’s voice and the
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mmm then I realized
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whenever my eyes it was Jenny miners
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in a way I think it was my mom’s voice
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and not for me to come to where she
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there’s now but for me to stay where I am
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and I don’t know hedging up in the air
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I was in that kind of just a boy
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you know what she was and a
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it was shortly thereafter that I turned the corner
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I definitely turned a corner then and this week
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well I just kept going
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I share this morning this day of celebration with evidence she’s the
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heart and soul of this place
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why we know she’s just getting started Jojo
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faster good morning america.
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she makes me happier person those the people you wan around in your life
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and Robin is that to me she is a role model
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and how you deal with the struggles of life
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do you think in terms of being foreal bit no
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or is it is that not a
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useful way to thick what I am facing now is
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is different my doctors have been cautious to use the word remission
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I’ve been cautious to say that were too
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at this very moment this day that I’m talking to die and
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I do not have MDS I do not have pre leukemia
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on this day and that’s all I can control right now
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my heart still beats very fast when I go in to see the doctor a regular basis
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and blood work is drawn and I wait for the results
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everyone says that dissipate over time
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you don’t have to go as frequently as more time passes
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but it’s nothing that’s going to to stay with me long term i cant
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then it’s that’s what I’m and you know I’m competitive MIGO
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I highlight those and I don’t want to wait in the AM
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if fifth if the fear overtakes me
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bennett williams then wonder why did I go to all that I do I go to all these
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last six months all this pain all this
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pink with all this everything to sit here now and be
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in fear nowhere is it written that
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we should not be happy that you get extra bonus points
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at the end because you you know we trudged along the new
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you did what you know you thought you should do I wanna be happy
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no other days this is a good day and there are some days you have that
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the kinda creeps and but I had to have something you do when it does
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what is it fear and doubt all it needs is test
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from you know that PI have a needle that’s all it needs to get through
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turned it takes over what do I do
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every Pat Summitt only this left for
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right foot re left foot right foot breed
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what do you see when you
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look in your eye is here own eyes now
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and I see a strong woman I know people have said that about me
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but we all know our own insecurities and we all know how we really feel about
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ourselves
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I feel strength like I’ve never felt before
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I do 90 how fortunate I was to receive such excellent health care
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it’s a blessing I wish everyone could have
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if I’ve learned one lesson the hong all others during this journey
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is that with faith family and friends
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you are strong even stronger
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think thing go
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word this makes you feel better
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I there is no place like home
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to
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job

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