Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Heather Sherwin, 1972-2007: Colon Club poster child 'truly was a blithe spirit' - Seattle P-I
A few years ago, Heather Sherwin was serving a salad of home-grown greens, when she noticed a small slug in her lettuce and tossed it in the trash can.
Regret soon overcame her, and she rushed back to the garbage.
"She dumped out the trash to find this little, itty-bitty, tiny slug, and released it," said Sherwin's mother, Barbara Lidster, who saw the whole thing and still laughs about it.
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Sherwin lent her radiant youth to The Colon Club, a non-profit group that educates mostly young people about colorectal cancer. It selected her as this year's Mrs. September for its annual calendar of survivors, in which she bares her surgical scars with a mischievous grin.
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"She really got that she wasn't her body, that her body had cancer, not her. That's why she could be concerned about everyone else. She added such a light."
Three days after celebrating her 10-year anniversary with her husband, Sherwin died at home. Her family scattered her ashes over Mount Si and her favorite blueberry patch.
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In the fifth grade, she suffered from a sometimes-fatal neurological disorder that caused muscle spasms and profound weakness, which confined her to a wheelchair.
It didn't silence her. She wrote a will, on stationery adorned with a rainbow, asking people to remember her as a "strong trooper." When she eventually recovered, she emerged recharged in her faith, and driven to help others. ...
A few years ago, Heather Sherwin was serving a salad of home-grown greens, when she noticed a small slug in her lettuce and tossed it in the trash can.
Regret soon overcame her, and she rushed back to the garbage.
"She dumped out the trash to find this little, itty-bitty, tiny slug, and released it," said Sherwin's mother, Barbara Lidster, who saw the whole thing and still laughs about it.
...
Sherwin lent her radiant youth to The Colon Club, a non-profit group that educates mostly young people about colorectal cancer. It selected her as this year's Mrs. September for its annual calendar of survivors, in which she bares her surgical scars with a mischievous grin.
...
"She really got that she wasn't her body, that her body had cancer, not her. That's why she could be concerned about everyone else. She added such a light."
Three days after celebrating her 10-year anniversary with her husband, Sherwin died at home. Her family scattered her ashes over Mount Si and her favorite blueberry patch.
...
In the fifth grade, she suffered from a sometimes-fatal neurological disorder that caused muscle spasms and profound weakness, which confined her to a wheelchair.
It didn't silence her. She wrote a will, on stationery adorned with a rainbow, asking people to remember her as a "strong trooper." When she eventually recovered, she emerged recharged in her faith, and driven to help others. ...
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