I wanted to share a sad story that is kind of heartwarming for Blogmas tonight.
I watch the show Jeopardy... pretty much every night. And lately a woman named Cindy Stowell has been winning. She's very quiet, and soft-spoken... but all of the stories that she's told on the air have made Alex laugh and they were sooo funny and so crazy that you can't help but notice her... and Alex Trebeck seemed very charmed by this woman the whole time. You can tell when he likes a contestant and he always seems so happy with all of her winnings.
What I didn't from watching this is that through this at least 6 day streak (It's on live right now... so idk the outcome of this game) Cindy has been battling Colon Cancer and passed away before her episodes aired. Alex Trebeck and a few of the Jeopardy crew members knew that Cindy was battling cancer, but not that many people were aware. Her goal was to get over 100,000 dollars... and she's passed that amount and has donated the money to fund cancer research.
While this is an especially hard time for Cindy's family, friends and loved ones...as well as the Jeopardy crew and probably even the other contestants in retrospect... there's a lot that we can learn from her story.
One is that you can never really know what someone is going through. When they announced that she had passed away already... it all made sense that her hair was very short, she was very skinny and small and soft-spoken... it was probably because she was very sick while on the show. Which is sad. It's sad the things we don't see when we don't know... but really you can't know. Kindness is key because you don't know when a small, kind act can really help a person.
Also she donated all her money to Cancer research... which is AMAZING! She's already won 100,000... that could be huge for finding a cure! The Ice Bucket Challenge was helpful to find the cause for ALS. I hope that the money that she's raised really helps find a cure.
So there's a little bit of hard news around the holidays... but as I've said... heartwarming. There's a lot of good in the world and the fact that this woman was able to fulfill her dream of going on jeopardy as well as raise over 100,000 for Cancer Research is amazing.
Bye!
-Shannon
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