Whew, we’ve nearly made it through another Breast Cancer Awareness Month! To wrap up Pinktober, the 2019 edition, I thought I’d share some random observations. Be sure to share yours in the comments too. 1. Randomness. That is my first observation. My mind has been all over the map this month. Random. That’s me. I …
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For the last few years, I’ve been reading, and you probably have been too, statements such as: We are all aware of breast cancer. Enough with the awareness. Everyone knows about breast cancer and other similar sentiments. So, I’ve gotta ask, have we reached the point of awareness saturation? As I’ve written before, if you …
16 things breast cancer is not! In this post, I wanna get right to the point. Okay, points. And I want to be succinct, which means I am making no commentary on any of the statements on the list below. Which is really hard for me. (I did stick in a few links, though, in …
The last week of September (or as is the case this year, the last two days of September and first five of October) is designated as National Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer (HBOC) Week. It’s sandwiched right in there between Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month and Breast Cancer Awareness Month. This designation came about in 2010 …
“Metastatic breast cancer” – let’s start saying the words. With sadness, I read the news about the death of journalist, political commentator, and author Cokie Roberts. And just days later when a reader shared the news about the death of actress and TV personality Suzanne Whang, I was saddened yet again. Both women died from …