Editor's Note: 7NEWS Meteorologist Pam Daale is grateful to all of the viewers who have expressed their best wishes as she wages her fight against breast cancer.

Daale has chosen to use TheDenverChannel.com as her way of keeping the public updated on her health. New journal entries will be posted weekly.

Wow! What a day! It's the evening after the Race for the Cure, and I'm exhausted. Part of the reason is that our family also went into the mountains for the afternoon, but more on that later...

The Race for the Cure was an amazing event. It was my first, and will definitely not be my last! Channel 7 had a team of about 25 who walked in the 5k coed walk/run which began at 9 a.m.

As we drove to the Channel 7 building (on the corner of Speer and Lincoln) at 8:30 I couldn't believe the masses of people walking in what I believe was the family walk.

The street looked to be filled, and the stream of people didn't seem to have an end! Okay, so I'm thinking, do I really want to do this? As a "short" person, I don't do all that well in large crowds. But I was too excited to let that stop me, so on we went.

Once our group was ready to go, we piled in front of a banner the folks at Channel 7 had put up for the race. Now it's a good thing I'd seen that banner before that moment, because it's a little embarrassing getting all blubbery in front of thousands of people who were still walking by from the earlier race.

The sign was pink with a pink ribbon on it and it said, "We love you Pam Daale." Wow, again! It certainly wasn't expected, and I am just so thankful to be working with such great people who care.

And while we were in front of the banner, many of the walkers came up to give me encouragement, which was also a bit overwhelming and almost made me reach for my tissues. That continued throughout the race, and to all of you who recognized me and came up to wish us well, I thank you. I can't tell you how much your support and prayers mean.

The enormous crowd didn't end up bothering me as much as I thought it would. Once we merged into the flow of people, it went quite easily.

Our son Logan rode on my lap, and my husband pulled our daughter Taryn in a wagon. We started on the right side of the street. In case you didn't know, streets are "crowned" which means they are highest in the middle, and slope to the sides. What that means to me is that if I'm on one side or the other, I can push with only one arm.

I knew that 3 miles on one arm wasn't going to work, so I immediately made a bee-line to the middle of the street. By the way, my apologies to those I may have cut off on the way.

At the beginning of the race, we couldn't really get a feel for just how many were walking with us, because we were toward the beginning of the line. But as we cut back on Speer, we could see the throngs that continued to stream down the street behind us. That made me stop and really soak in the kind of event we were taking part in. Wow, yet again!

Along the way I noted all the women wearing their pink caps and pink T-shirts. Many of whom came up to say "Way to go" or "I'm a 10-year survivor, and I know you can be too."

Then there were the others with the pink papers on their backs saying who they were walking for.

There were a lot of signs that read "walking in celebration of..." But there were also a lot of signs that read "walking in memory of..." That was a big reminder to me that yes, women do die from breast cancer. And it also reinforced why I want to be public about my own breast cancer, and help raise awareness.

You may have seen the article in the papers this week about the controversy over self-breast exams. That kind of stuff makes me angry when I KNOW that finding my own lump may have saved my life. I have talked with so many women who have said they found their own lumps. I wonder how many of them wouldn't be here today if they didn't do their self exams.

So please don't let the headlines let you slip into complacency over self breast exams. THEY WORK! No, certainly not every breast cancer can be found on a self exam, but consider the number of women who wouldn't be here today had they not found their own lumps.

If you don't know how to do your own exam, talk to your doctor. They're easy and painless, and could save your life.

There's lots more to talk about. But for now, my bed is calling.

Until next time...

Pam Daale
The happy cancer patient