not feel bad. but it was hard, because i continue to feel guilty, because i was like, this fight does not stop just because i do. but watching what melissa has done over this last year, it has just been remarkable. being a mom is hard enough. being a mom of a child who had cancer makes it harder. and being a mom who is trying to protect all the kids in her community from some insidious, exposure, the level of responsibility that you end up taking on and feeling is daunting and draining and overwhelming. i have seen the toll that it has taken on her because it is frustrating when people do not listen. but she still gets up and she still fights. and she is still pushing so hard. because she has watched her friends bury their children.
days before the election and now they are pounding me to come host this thing where cox can step in with all these crying cancer moms. it was so much pressure on a short amount of time to figure things out. denise has been great, saying melissa, in the end this has to be your call because this is your community and you have to do what you feel is right. and then, down is going like, you can t do this. you walk into a trap essentially. and so, when i got that word, i called them up, i complained about it. i don t feel good about it. i m sorry, i just can t do it. so, i canceled. . i hate that. i hate that politics has to be part of anything i do, to be honest. it s like to be honest and do what i feel is right and kind of always have my cards out. but i know i made the right choice, and now people are mad at me, and i don t know i just don t know anything. and then, dan saying, he said,
you regulate boeing, not the other way around. we are a force to be reckoned with. i really, changed really healed. and i m willing to have confrontation. not for confrontation s sake, but to protect the people i care about. i still wanted to throw up afterwards. she has always been fierce. her motivation to never stop just keeps getting stronger and stronger. melissa bumstead is a hero. she is the face of this cleanup. people like melissa will change the tide of this fight and i know that she is changed already. there was nothing like a mom wanting to protect her children. there is no force on earth that s more powerful. my daughter went through excruciating pain. she buried three of her friends last year. and we are praying to god that we finally get the cleanup, because sometimes i cannot
got to try on a wedding dress. she will never get to walk down the aisle. and like you said, we are trying to fit in a lifetime in just a small number of years. and that is so powerful. the day that she passed away, my husband and i, we were not ready to go home. we left her at the hospital, that was the hardest thing we had ever had to do, was to leave there without her. it was so hard to trust in anything, because all you feel is that tangible loss. stay strong. i try to get to protest the other day, but my body would not let me. melissa and i tell each other all the time, just do what you can, that is okay, do
out to the community. might try to figure out how to message it, to target. we don t really know with the next target is and then randomly. i admire melissa more than i can begin to say. she is taking this personal tragedy and used it as motivation and energy to try to protect others. and i have been in meetings with melissa, in grace of god, to meet with state senators and they touch their hearts and so it becomes much easier to do it. if you don t see who gets hurt from. we have to look to our decision-makers to commit to us that the site will be cleaned up in a timely manner and that they will make it a priority. it sounds like he was talking as a human instead of a politician. maybe he will actually do it like you said. these hundreds of thousands of signatures on the petition have turned things around quite a bit. the question is, is it enough?