Jeopardy is
a game show with Alex Trabek as the questioning host
A
shining light in the TV wasteland other than cable news channels I like the
most
Tonight
I watched five time winner Cindy Stowell go for win number six trying to add to
her prior 80+ grand
With
a quiet voice but she knew when to the button hit
Conversely
when the answer not clear she would just sit
She
seemed so quiet almost shy
I
was sure she would win and then be adding to her total with a seventh game to
try
She
trailed the leader in the Final Jeopardy Round by a little over a ten thousand
two hundred bucks
Final
category of American Olympic athletes in the Rio Games and on the question she
ran out of luck
State
that finished in top ten with medals with 14 with a man and a woman together
winning nine?
She
could win if she waged enough and answered correctly and if the leader lost and
put too much on the line
Phelps
and Ledecky from Maryland was the right answer which the leader got right
Cindy
answered New Jersey which was close but for her winning quest ended on that
question that night
Little
did I know until I turned on my computer to prepare tomorrow’s Ridley's Believe
It Or Not
That
this quiet, brave champion with a smile to light up a room had 15 days earlier
lost another battle she had fought
While
her episodes were being taped in August Cindy was battling colon cancer,
advanced to Stage 4
Diagnosed
with six months to live maybe less but certainly not much more
No
contestant knew, only Trebek and a few Jeopardy staff that she most likely
would soon die
Knowing
at 41 you would soon die what admiration for a fighter to be a contestant and
the disease try to defy
She
died on December 5, eight days before the first of her six episodes aired
Splurge
80+ grand on the bucket list or one’s winnings to cancer research to its claim
to more victims impair
Easy
to judge intellect of contestants but as to character much harder to surmise
When
it comes to leaving a worthy legacy and example of courage Cindy wins the prize
Rest
in Peace and may your donated winnings be the research straw that breaks a
cancer’s back
And
encourages the living to with dollars and prayers join the anti-cancer crusade
and attack
©
December 20, 2016, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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