Friday, 21 September 2018 09:42

6th Annual Pink Bows on Broadway

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SARATOGA SPRINGS — The ‘angel army’ of Floyd Warriors is getting ready for breast cancer awareness month this October with the 6th annual month- long celebration of Pink Bows on Broadway. Floyd Warriors founder, Lisa Morahan is a cancer survivor herself and started ‘Pink Bows on Broadway’ as a way to not only celebrate survivors and pay tribute to those that have succumbed to the illness, but also celebrate the caregivers, nurses and physicians who are also affected by the disease.

Morahan was diagnosed with stage-three breast cancer in 2009, just eight weeks after her mother passed away because of the same illness. At the time of her diagnosis Morahan had a one- and-half-year-old son.

“I asked my surgeon; he was giving me some resources, support groups and people I could talk to... I was at a point of really being on the front lines. I felt like I was going into war and I had to prepare myself and I just had to focus on what was most needed at the moment,” she said.

“I’m the youngest of six, I had part of my family and I had a lot of friends, so a lot of people were coming forward wanting to help but it was a full time job trying to figure out who could do what when and trying to coordinate things,” she added.

And so began the vision for Floyd Warriors; the theme was to provide real help in the home of people undergoing cancer treatment. Floyd Warrior’s slogan is “helping families cope with cancer, one household at a time,”but the motto is“dinner is done, dishes are clean and the kids are okay.”

"Cancer certainly crushes you, makes you surrender to yourself and to a higher power, then it gives you the ability to rebuild yourself," Morahan said.

According to Morahan much of the angel army that makes up Floyd Warriors are individuals that have undergone cancer treatment as well. The volunteers will help by either connecting the family to a business that can fulfill the service they need, and funding it, or fulfilling the task themselves, whether it is making dinner, yard work or housekeeping.

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