Posts Tagged "breast cancer"
So, I’m Wearing My Pink Ribbon
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!October is breast cancer awareness month and everywhere you turn you are seeing Pink ribbons. Yet with all the awareness breast cancer receives it is still one of the top killers of women ages 20-59. It been 20 years since the first pink ribbon appeared and in that time the number of women who have died of breast cancer has not been significantly reduced. When we see the pink ribbon or hear about a program to support breast cancer us ladies are more likely to give. We give because breast cancer is not something we’d like to have or we know someone who has affected by breast cancer....
Read MoreMy First Mammogram
Seriously, you turn 40 you get this letter from your doctor that its time to come and get a mammogram. You have no idea what to expect. You know it a good idea to get them to spot breast cancer early (knock on wood they see nothing). But my goodness, NO one tells you what to expect except you’ll feel some pressure on your breast. I’m here to tell you! Yes there is pressure, but for the amount of time the technician touched my boobs, she should have left me a tip! She was definitely rolling VIP! You walk in the room and they open your johnny and then proceed to stretch your boobs into the most unnatural position. Then you have to turn your head in an...
Read More8 Ways to Prevent Breast Cancer
I have had a breast cancer scare in October 0f 2008. Two months prior was the happiest time of my life, I had just got in engaged! Then my routine monthly breast exam, I discovered a lump. I remember sitting down my fiance — now husband — and telling him of my discovery. To help make me laugh, he said you certainly know how to put the vow in sickness and health to the test. He went through the entire process with me holding my hand and telling everything was going to be okay. Thankfully my lump turned out to me a calcium deposit, and I have a scar on my left breast as a reminder that I should continue to do regular self breast exams, because what if it...
Read MoreAre you over the pink ribbon?
Have you purchase an item specifically because a portion of the proceeds went to a breast cancer? According to Cone Research 79 percent of consumers would likely switch to a brand that supports a cause, if all other things are equal. I’ll raise my hand I have done it each year I purchase a lunch bags from Lean Cuisine. The bags are great and I get a ton of compliments on them, and I feel good about buying them because money is going to breast cancer. I look forward to every October so I can get new lunch bags. Well this year Lean Cuisine decided not to do them because they felt with the current economic situation they felt folks wouldn’t be inclined to...
Read MoreWhy I Wore Lipstick To My Mastectomy
Confession. I am addicted to Lifetime Movies! Okay so now it’s out there. I have pretty seen them all with the exception of Why I Wore Lipstick To My Mastectomy. I watched this weekend and WOW, what a powerful movie. She was only 28 had to make such a radical decision; I think to myself could I be that brave? When I was 28, I found a lump it turned out to be a calcium deposit, but I certainly was scared to death in the 24 hours before I could see my doctor. I asked myself, so what would I do if I needed to be brave? What would you do if you needed to be brave? Bring your lunch, purchase this awesome Lean Cusine lunch cooler, I have bought one every year...
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