Bringing Birthdays to Relay For Life

Jamie Lamar is still celebrating her birthday thanks to her diligence in getting her annual mammogram. Jamie, of Greenville, S.C., was diagnosed with breast cancer, had a mastectomy and no other treatment – because it was caught early.

So this year, as she was preparing her luminaria bags for her local Relay For Life, she thought about the American Cancer Society’s birthday campaign. “I had just celebrated a birthday and thought about the cards people had sent to me,” Jamie shares. “I save them from year to year to reflect back on them.”

She asked her daughter, Lynn, to use them to decorate three bags – one in honor of Jamie, one in memory of Jamie’s Dad, and one in memory of Jamie’s sister. “I wanted to use the cards for the memory bags because we’re still celebrating their lives,” Jamie adds.