More than 1.5 million people will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year worldwide.
4109 a day.
171 a hour.
3 a minute.
Like most good Kossacks I come here to get the news counter weight,
before going on to the corporate media.
The headline I was greeted with was:
"Australian pop star Kylie Minogue has been diagnosed with breast cancer at age 37."
This hit me right between my Kos Googles when that came up; not because I am a fan, this is the same age as my wife when she was diagnosed. My wife is not famous like Kylie, but she had done some TV. Not as an actress, but as a person who's discrimination case (victim) was
so bad, that it ended up as the lead segment on the August 11th, 1995 episode of 20/20. She also verbally pimp slapped Neil Cavuto on his CNBC Show. 6 years ago on this coming Thanksgiving, I was sitting, scared to death, in a hospital with my wife who had undergone a mastectomy. My mother in law was who had been living with us for 4 years (still does), was diagnosed at the same time with breast cancer as well as my favorite cat. This came on top of a job change 4 months earlier and having a 6 month old baby with colic.
I write this diary not looking for sympathy, but to ask you all to do me a favor today. Please make sure you check yourself every month and make sure those you love check themselves too. We know that this current administration will not help fund a cure, but we can keep our mothers, sisters, wives, grandmothers here with us, if it is caught in time. I wonder how many things we could cure with just the missing money in Iraq??? I did not put daughters in that list as it is my wish that our daughters never have to face this disease. I am one of the lucky ones who patients are still here, but some are not as fortunate. I think of a good friend that I have met through this community, who lost her mother when she was 15 to this horrible disease, and I cry. Everything she has had to face, is the worst nightmare I have for my little girl. My little buddy loves me, but she needs her mom. I pray that my friend and my daughter never have to go through this pain again or face this themselves and I pray that for your family as well. We cannot lose any more those who help us fight the good fight; please make sure you check yourself today!
Do you think you are too young? You are not. Think 37 is a long way off for you? Take your age and subtact it from 37. Now add that to your youngest child's age and that is when they get to learn that mommy is sick.
Please make sure you check yourself today!
As a man, I cannot understand what your breasts mean to you and I will not try. I will say this as a man, if you think you are nothing more than them, you are wrong and I do not care what Madison Ave. tells you. You are a human being that can think, care, cry, laugh, listen, speak, hold, and most importantly love. You are the goddesses that keep us all safe and warm from many stupid things we do. You are so much more
and we need to let you know this more often.
If you think no one cares enough about you for it to matter, I do.
Not sure on the correct method?
Go here for some good info.
Also Y-ME's homepage is here.
Here are some survivors: let's keep adding to it.
Shirley Temple Black
Diahann Carroll
Rachel Carson, one of the most influential women in the history of science.
Edie Falco
Jill Eikenberry
Linda Ellerbee
Peggy Fleming
Betty Ford
Ruth Handler, the creator of Barbie (doll).
Shelley Hamlin, former president of the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA)
Kate Jackson
Ann Jillian
Patti LaBelle
Rue McClanahan
Olivia Newton-John
Sandra Day O'Connor
Nancy Reagan
Lynn Redgrave
Cokie Robert
Carly Simon
Jaclyn Smith
Gloria Steinem
Marcia Wallace
Mellisa Ethridge
YOU???
Guys, you should be checking the "boys" once a month as well.
P.S. Vitamin Girl, you best be checking yourself or I will personally kick your behind.
No tip jar......Don't need the mojo, but I will beg for recommends. If we can save one Kossack's life, then it is worth it
If you have a survivor story, please share it. People need to know they can live a full life. My best friends mother had
a double mastectomy 25 years ago and she is still here kicking ass.
If you have lost someone to this disease, please put their name here so we too can remember them.