Mary Gooze Swims Brown’s Lake To Raise Money For Metastatic Breast Cancer Research
Mary Gooze is a cancer survivor and a woman on a mission to raise money metastatic breast cancer research. Gooze’s breast cancer has metastasized to her bones, and though she has been diagnosed with this terminal disease swimming gives her hope.
She swims lakes around the United States to raise awareness and funds for metastatic breast cancer, which only receives two percent of breast cancer research dollars. On Saturday, August 29, Gooza and her supporters swam swam two miles around Browns Lake in Summit Township, Michigan.
Browns Lake is the nineteenth lake she has swam, at the request of her nephew Nick who lives along the lake with his wife Tovah Sheldon. Every year 40,000 people die of metastatic breast cancer and Gooze is working to stop this. She has collected more than $35,000 for metastatic breast cancer research, and her aim to to be around long enough to raise $1 million for a cancer that is being forgotten.
Gooze finds swimming to be therapeutic , since she is not able to run sprint triathlons since her cancer has weakened the bones in her hip.
She swim now and she finds hope.
Tags: anti-cancer, cancer awareness
