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A fourth breast cancer diagnos


Jeanna Finch


Four-time survivor and fighter for 10 years, diagnosed at age 41
from Recipes for the Mind


Contact Polly for speaking engagements at pollyswalking@Yahoo.com and she will inspire you, too, to follow the long road to your wildest dreams.

 

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On August 1, 1999, Polly Letofsky left her home in Vail and headed west. She traveled across 4 continents, 22 countries and over 14,000 miles. By foot. 

As an awareness campaign for breast cancer, survivors around the world came out to walk with her. Every day strangers welcomed her into their homes where they would chat over home-cooked meals about their lives on the rhubarb farm or their hobby collecting antique toasters. 

Across four continents she had dinner conversations with the likes of olive growers, pig farmers and the female bomb maker in Australia. 

But in the middle of Polly’s five-year journey, the world suddenly shifted on its axis when September 11 flung us all into a crossroads in world history. Polly suddenly found herself embedded in a vastly changing world and realized she could never retrace her steps home – they’d vanished in a tide of world events. 

She quickly changed her strut for the next leg through an Islamic Asia, India, the Middle East, and a simmering Europe.

Sometimes serious (like 9/11), sometimes funny (like dining in Turkey), always inspirational, you can hear about Polly's GlobalWalk through her speaking. 


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GlobalWalk for Breast Cancer Statistics

·         14124      Total miles walked from Vail, CO to Vail, CO--via India

·     22          Number of countries Polly has walked through

·     1900      Breast cancer survivors that have walked with Polly

·        1600     Number of those women who were diagnosed under the age of 40

·        13         Number of breast cancer organizations around the world that have benefited from GlobalWalk

·        $200K   Guesstimate of how much money has been raised in 8 currencies

·        9         Number of languages Polly can ask, “Where am I on this map?”

·        0         Number of sick days

·        3         Number of  times Polly has had food poisoning (Luxembourg, Australia, Missouri)

·        29        Pairs of shoes Polly has walked through

·        84,000  Number of times Polly’s been asked how many pairs of shoes she has walked through

·        $1       Amount Polly now charges for answering how many pairs of shoes she has walked through

·        $51.45  Amount of money Polly has found along side the road

·        886     Newspaper interviews and feature articles

·        6        Newspapers that have gotten all the facts straight

·        58      Times stopped by policemen

·        3        Times that Polly had to call police

·        3        Times police have been called due to horny men

·        0        Number of times Polly got sick in India (A world record)

·        1        Number of cows named after Polly in New Zealand

·        782     Number of maps used

·        15,000 Number of photos taken

·        17       Number of bibles Polly has been given

·        120     Hottest temperature Polly had to walk in (India, Malaysia, Australia, Greece, Turkey)

·        -10      Coldest temperature Polly had to walk in (Iowa)

·        28       Most miles walked in one day

·        7.2      Richter scale in California earthquake

·        5        Number of forest fires Polly had to run through

·        6       How many times Polly has been proposed to

·        5        Number of men Polly met with breast cancer

·        12     Number of Indians who approached Polly to help smuggle them into the USA

·        36     Number of boxes FULL of gifts that have been sent to Mom’s house for storage


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