As many of my closest friends know, i have had several close people to me who have battled with breast cancer. My family was hit by it several times and my best friends in Virginia know the heartache and pain the followed as i tried to help my mother thru her chemo and radiation therapy... it was very hard to see my mother in pain and there was nothing i could do to help her... but i did what i could to take care of her and she appreciated all that i did. We are very lucky as my mother is still alive now because they were able to help her because of medical technology.. others have not been so lucky, as you all may recall my talking about our family friend Kathy passing away this past May after battling cancer.. it started as breast cancer and spread... they tried everything they could to help her and it just kept coming back... she hadnt even reached the age of 30 yet. Most woman think that only women in their late 30s and older get breast cancer, but that is not true, there have been many young women that have had it too... the best thing you can do is to check yourself at least once a month to make sure you dont have any lumps that could possibly be a tumor... it takes only moments to check and i think we can all spare a few moments a month to make sure we have more moments in the future. If breast cancer runs high in your family, let your doctor know so that they can better help you with prevention and all. And i ask you all to do what you can to help with cancer research programs, whether it be turning in those yoplat lids, or sending money to foundations, or walking in the walk-a-thons, or even volunteering to help someone with cancer to live life, to help take care of them as they go thru the crucial time of their life. Thank you all for taking time to read this and for doing what you can to help....maybe one day we will finally find a cure..........
Wanda Lee
(aka CarrieVamp)
In Memory of our Friend and Sister Kathy and all the women out there that battle this disease!
