Two weeks ago Dear Hubby and I attended a football game at our son’s college. My son doesn’t play football. He plays the tuba in the marching band. It was one of those warm, gorgeous blue-sky fall days. Plus it was homecoming, so of course the stadium was packed with spectators. As fate would have it, a …
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Did you know October 13th is Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day? Yes, metastatic breast cancer gets its own awareness day designation. It should be getting a whole lot more, but I guess one day is better than no day at all. Friend and fellow blogger, Katherine O’Brien from I Hate Breast Cancer, recently proposed her …
Are you ready? I’ve been fluctuating between wanting to be quiet during October which is of course, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, or trying to “rev things up” a notch. I’m still not exactly sure where October Pinktober will lead me. Stay tuned. It seems like I should have some profound post planned as October begins. I’m certainly eager …
Did you know September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness month? It’s also Prostate Cancer Awareness Month and Children’s Cancer Awareness Month. There are more, and I mean more in September. Appropriately sandwiched in there before the arrival of the “BIG ONE,” Breast Cancer Awareness Month also known as Pinktober, is National Hereditary Breast & Ovarian Cancer …
Late last month, the ongoing controversy regarding the legality of gene patenting became even murkier and unfortunately, the situation does not appear closer to resolution. Why does this matter? Well, because lives are at stake. And lots of dollars. Women who test positive for the BRCA 1 or BRCA 2 genetic mutations have a much greater …