It is cancer awareness month. Bloggers and Webmasters!

[alfredo]

please join in by going pink for October. http://pinkforoctober.org/

My site has gone pink for the month.

Instead of black and blue, I'm pink.

http://homepage.mac.com/alfredo_tomato/Wheatpaste.html

Please consider making a change. It could be a simple pink ribbon, or you can go whole hog like I did.

Post your changes if you wish.

[liberal N proud]

1. Can we call the Republican lead congress a Cancer?

They are a cancer on the integrity of the United States and need to be removed before they kill the whole country.

[alfredo]

2. Hey, call them anything you want. They are a cancer. Maybe

soon they will be cut out of the body politic.

[Democrat 4 Ever]

3. Everyone please remind your loved ones that this is Breast Cancer

Month. Urge all the women in your life to do self exams, have mammograms, walk to raise money, etc. This is a disease that can be beaten if we all work together.

My mother was diagnosed with Stage 4 breast cancer in January of this year after months and months of doctors telling us that the lump wasn't anything and re-scheduling her biopsy and the lumpectomy and finally the mastectomy several times (five months between mammogram until they finally removed the breast). She always gets regular check-ups, never missed her mammograms, paps, etc. Yet they didn't find it until it has spread to her bones and we are now going for management of a disease that could have been cured with earlier detection.

On the up side, because of her age it was determined that chemotherapy would not be the course of treatment best for her. They have put her on a regime of hormone therapy - taking one pill a day and a monthly IV of calcium (forget the official name) to help strengthen her bones. The cancer levels have actually dropped since she started this medicine back in February. She hasn't lost her hair, has been sick a minute and actually feels very, very good. We will take what time we have and enjoy every darn minute.

I have three daughters, six granddaughters, one sister, two sisters-in-law, three aunts, seven cousins, four nieces, many female friends and a whole host of people in this world I have never met that I hope never, ever had to face this ugly disease. This is just another reason we need to take back the government - we can't depend on the repugs to give a damn about anyone but themselves.

[soup]

4. Five months! That's just criminal.

Sitting here shaking my head in disbelief. I'm so sorry your mom is going through this.

I had just over a week - Doctor one morning, imaging that afternoon - 3 days later the biopsy and lumpectomy and 5 days after that back in for the modified radical mastectomy. April 29, 1993.

My best to you and your mom. Take each treasured moment and hold onto it.

and thank you for the post, alfredo.
Sorry for the delayed response.
I was rocking my 15 month old granddaughter.


on edit: turning it pink for October.

[alfredo]

5. Thanks

You inspired me to change my avatar to pink

[soup]

6. Yahoo - Breast Cancer Awareness 2006

“1 in 8 women will get breast cancer in her lifetime.”
Provided by: American Cancer Society
http://health.yahoo.com/breastcancerawareness06;_ylt=AqHM0d6vEzsO0TrKz9tf697aadEF

a kick - because it's important

[alfredo]

7. I had my cancer scare just recently. I have friends who have

survived breast cancer, some who haven't. I can't help but be involved.