![]() The doctor laid out two options: a lumpectomy or a single mastectomy. "It was just happenstance that they found the breast cancer." "They were two separate things," DelSota said. But doctors also found the early stages of breast cancer. She was right that the nickel-sized spot could be treated easily. One test led to another and another until finally she was referred to M.D. As a redhead, she was on the alert for small skin cancers, and she went to have the spot checked. In 2013, DelSota noticed a round pink spot the size of a nickel on the right side of her right breast. The family's tango with cancer began in 2010, when Kiely found a breast lump and had a lumpectomy and radiation in Austin. While her own treatment is complete, her 71-year-old mother, Ann Kiely, is coping with her second bout with the disease and will undergo a single mastectomy at the end of April. ![]() Thus far this year DelSota has raised more than $14,000 individually and almost $25,000 with her team. ![]() "I couldn't run, I couldn't lift anything, I couldn't do anything but walk," said DelSota, 46. The money raised in Houston will go to institutions fighting breast cancer here and around the state.įor more information, go to. The entrance fee is $50, but all participants also have to raise $1,800 for the cause. Participants walk 26.2 miles the first day and 13.1 miles the second day. Of that, DelSota pulled in $22,000 by herself and more than $45,000 as leader of her eight-woman team, the Chicken Foot Fighters.ĭelSota, who works for a human resources consulting firm, completed training for the walk and the walk itself without so much as a blister, even though she was between a double mastectomy and breast reconstruction surgery at the time.Īvon 39, The Walk to End Breast Cancer, will be April 25-26. At Houston's 2014 walk, more than 1,000 participants, including 126 survivors, raised more than $2 million. Since 2003, the annual walks that take place in seven cities across the United States have raised $550 million to beat the disease. Over the years, the numbers haven't changed that much." "One in eight women will get breast cancer in their lifetime. "We're doing this for ourselves, our moms, our friends, our families, our kids and our future grandbabies," said Krista DelSota, who was the top fund-raiser in the Houston area last year, her first year to walk. The walkers are asked to pay a $50 registration fee - those dollars are used to support the walk - and to raise a minimum of $1,800 - money that goes to breast cancer research and improved access to screening, diagnosis and treatment. ![]() Participants in the April 25-26 fund-raiser in Houston will walk 26.2 miles that Saturday and 13.1 miles that Sunday. It's not too late to sign up for Avon 39, The Walk to End Breast Cancer. Jill Karnicki Show More Show Less 6 of6 Avon walk participant and breast cancer survivor Krista DelSota was the top fund-raiser in Houston last year. ![]() Jill Karnicki Show More Show Less 5 of6 Donna Evans, left, and Kristy Charroin walked the 2014 Avon 39 in Houston. Jill Karnicki Show More Show Less 4 of6 The Hot Tatamales, a group of 13 walkers from Houston and around the country, decorated their shoes with flames for last year's Avon walk. James Nielsen/Staff Show More Show Less 3 of6 Many walkers wear tributes to people affected by breast cancer during the Avon walk. Jill Karnicki Show More Show Less 2 of6 Avon walk participant and breast cancer survivor Krista DelSota was the top fund-raiser in Houston last year. 1 of6 Hot Tatamales teammates, from left, Dan Evans, Eric Christian Smith, Donna Evans, Meredith Raine, Kristy Charroin, Betsy Zumwalt and Kimberly Tabor stop for a photo of downtown Houston near Buffalo Bayou during last year's Avon walk. ![]()
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