Comments on: Justification http://ryansutter.com/blog/justification/ Official site of Ryan Sutter Tue, 08 Nov 2011 05:22:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Claudia Ludeman http://ryansutter.com/blog/justification/#comment-178 Claudia Ludeman Mon, 13 Sep 2010 15:31:36 +0000 http://ryansutter.com/blog/?p=611#comment-178 Dear Ryan, I only got interested in the Bachelorette when I started watching Ali and Roberto and discovered that you and Trista had the same love experience and also discovered your website. wow, you are incredible! I love your passion for life and people. In reading your blog, I have been inspired and thank you for your your life experiences that you share because it has been so uplifting to me. Thank you Ryan. Best regards to your family, WOW. Claudia Dear Ryan,
I only got interested in the Bachelorette when I started watching Ali and Roberto and discovered that you and Trista had the same love experience and also discovered your website. wow, you are incredible! I love your passion for life and people. In reading your blog, I have been inspired and thank you for your your life experiences that you share because it has been so uplifting to me. Thank you Ryan. Best regards to your family, WOW. Claudia

]]> By: Cindy Podhorsky http://ryansutter.com/blog/justification/#comment-177 Cindy Podhorsky Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:58:36 +0000 http://ryansutter.com/blog/?p=611#comment-177 Ryan, I am not one of those who follow reality T.V., but we have visited the Vail Valley frequently for the past twenty years and couldn't help but hear of Ryan and Trista when your names came up in the culture of the day. This past week we happened to be in Vail for the Teva Challenge and enjoyed the various events as spectators, while registering with First Descents, not really aware of what it entailed, nor that you had taken up its challenge. After receiving an email from FD and being linked to your blog, I now feel more connected to you and the very important LIFE philosophy that you so eloquently express in both words and actions. You inspired and moved me. My much loved and respected father of seven of us children battled cancer and its effects for 18 years before passing at the age of 56. My brother-in-law, ironically, is fighting for his life against the same type of cancer that took my father's life a few years prior to my brother-in-laws marriage to my sister. For almost five years now he has miraculously survived through great pain to be 53 so that he might see his three children to a maturity where they would become self sufficient. He has a gregarious disposition and wit and a very close and loving relationship with my sister, whom he helped through the breast cancer that she was first diagnosed with at the age of 32. Her cancer re-emerged this year and has now progressed this year to metastatic disease. As a couple they are both now struggling with stage 4 cancers. I too, was treated for breast cancer the day before I turned 51. I am now 62, and much like my sister thought we might be in the clear, since we were thought to be cancer FREE for a little over ten years. In the course of my sister's treatment she found that she has the BRCA- 2 hereditary gene, which puts all who carry it, at greater cancer risk and cancer reoccurrence. One only hopes that we do not pass the gene on to our children. I am now receiving information from diagnostic blood and bone scan tests to better understand what I may be facing. I may have genetic testing to see if I too have "THE GENE", but am torn as to whether this is valid enough information to take preventative measures or whether it is akin to terrorism and causes one to live too defensively, or even worse, offensively in fear. Although I try to be an optimistic person in regards to life in general, I am also a realist. I don't expect to be spared any more than another person, especially since I consider there to be many people that have been and are suffering who are more innocent and worthwhile than I. I am not a fighter by nature. I value and love life, others' as well as my own. I am very thankful for all of the joy, love, and blessings that I have experienced in life. My prayer is to be able to continue to both experience and contribute to the good life has to give. I hope I am up to the challenges that so many others have faced with so much love and dignity. Thank You For Sharing Your Story and Work Thank You For Being Inspired By And Helping Others Thank You For Inspiring Me, Cindy Ryan,
I am not one of those who follow reality T.V., but we have visited the Vail Valley frequently for the past twenty years and couldn’t help but hear of Ryan and Trista when your names came up in the culture of the day.
This past week we happened to be in Vail for the Teva Challenge and enjoyed the various events as spectators, while registering with First Descents, not really aware of what it entailed, nor that you had taken up its challenge. After receiving an email from FD and being linked to your blog, I now feel more connected to you and the very important LIFE philosophy that you so eloquently express in both words and actions. You inspired and moved me.
My much loved and respected father of seven of us children battled cancer and its effects for 18 years before passing at the age of 56. My brother-in-law, ironically, is fighting for his life against the same type of cancer that took my father’s life a few years prior to my brother-in-laws marriage to my sister. For almost five years now he has miraculously survived through great pain to be 53 so that he might see his three children to a maturity where they would become self sufficient. He has a gregarious disposition and wit and a very close and loving relationship with my sister, whom he helped through the breast cancer that she was first diagnosed with at the age of 32. Her cancer re-emerged this year and has now progressed this year to metastatic disease. As a couple they are both now struggling with stage 4 cancers. I too, was treated for breast cancer the day before I turned 51. I am now 62, and much like my sister thought we might be in the clear, since we were thought to be cancer FREE for a little over ten years. In the course of my sister’s treatment she found that she has the BRCA- 2 hereditary gene, which puts all who carry it, at greater cancer risk and cancer reoccurrence. One only hopes that we do not pass the gene on to our children.
I am now receiving information from diagnostic blood and bone scan tests to better understand what I may be facing. I may have genetic testing to see if I too have “THE GENE”, but am torn as to whether this is valid enough information to take preventative measures or whether it is akin to terrorism and causes one to live too defensively, or even worse, offensively in fear.
Although I try to be an optimistic person in regards to life in general, I am also a realist. I don’t expect to be spared any more than another person, especially since I consider there to be many people that have been and are suffering who are more innocent and worthwhile than I.
I am not a fighter by nature. I value and love life, others’ as well as my own. I am very thankful for all of the joy, love, and blessings that I have experienced in life. My prayer is to be able to continue to both experience and contribute to the good life has to give. I hope I am up to the challenges that so many others have faced with so much love and dignity.

Thank You For Sharing Your Story and Work
Thank You For Being Inspired By And Helping Others
Thank You For Inspiring Me,

Cindy

]]> By: Jane from Detroit Lakes http://ryansutter.com/blog/justification/#comment-176 Jane from Detroit Lakes Sat, 05 Jun 2010 18:06:06 +0000 http://ryansutter.com/blog/?p=611#comment-176 Ryan, I am 100percent behind what you are doing and wish to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your efforts. Last Sept. my forever healthy husband was diagnosed with stomach cancer and after a very hard-fought 2 month battle lost his fight on Nov. 24th. He passed away with a dignity and grace that I will forever be in awe of. What an example he gave to me, our children and our 13 grandchildren. I will be forever grateful that we were able to spend 47 years together and have all those memories. I cannot imagine getting this daignosis at any age, but being a child is so unfair. Having to muster up the courage to fight for your life when all you should have to do is LIVE. May God Bless you and your efforts and give these kids and their families the strenght to face their journey through this war!!!!! THANK YOU, Jane Ryan,
I am 100percent behind what you are doing and wish to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your efforts. Last Sept. my forever healthy husband was diagnosed with stomach cancer and after a very hard-fought 2 month battle lost his fight on Nov. 24th. He passed away with a dignity and grace that I will forever be in awe of. What an example he gave to me, our children and our 13 grandchildren. I will be forever grateful that we were able to spend 47 years together and have all those memories. I cannot imagine getting this daignosis at any age, but being a child is so unfair. Having to muster up the courage to fight for your life when all you should have to do is LIVE. May God Bless you and your efforts and give these kids and their families the strenght to face their journey through this war!!!!! THANK YOU, Jane

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