Many have already dedicated posts to this and I won’t be the last either, but I need to as well…
See the “Feel Your Boobies” badge there in the sidebar? It’s there because October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. And it’s as important to me as to the next woman. Breast cancer, in my life, has come way too close for comfort already and I’ll be damned if I am not gonna do all I can to not let it get closer than it has to be.
Three of my aunts have already died of breast cancer. All three were sisters of my father. In 2006, the year my father passed away, his youngest sister died as well… She had been suffering from breast cancer and finally lost the battle at the end of that year… A few years before, 2 of my dads older sisters had already been diagnosed with tumors in the breast area and lymphnodes. Both got treatment and were in remission… One of those aunts was my very favorite aunt, of both of me and my sister. She was always closest to our family, so very much closer than any of the others.
Little over a year after my dad passed away, I got pregnant with The Kid. I was due to give birth in December 2007 and in October of that very year I visited that particular aunt. And for some reason we talked a lot about my Dad, their youth, my Mum and Dad’s marriage, and the fact that she was thrilled that I was pregnant. We were very close and I was also the very first of all her nieces and nephews that was going to have a baby. She didn’t have any children herself and she told me that this felt like the closest she’d ever come to experiencing grandchildren and she was loving the idea. She gave me the cútest PJ’s for the baby.
It was the last time I ever saw her…
A few weeks before I was due to give birth she was diagnosed with recurrent breast cancer which had spread all through her body. It was terminal. I gave birth to The Kid on December 16, and she passed away on December 23. She never saw The Kid, I never saw her again. I couldn’t even go to her funeral. Death and birth, so close together. Two sides of the medal of life.
The third of my aunts passed away earlier this year. She was also diagnosed with recurrent breast cancer and had extensive treatment but unfortunately it couldn’t save her anymore.
My dad had 4 sisters. Three of them are not with us anymore, as a result of breast cancer. Can you see the odds there? And I know that my family is not an exception to the rule. Unfortunately.
So get informed, click the “Feel Your Boobies” link to the US National Breast Cancer Awareness Month site or google for your local site. Every country has one. Read what it says on there. There’s instructions on every site on how to examine yourself. Do it, at least once a month. It only takes a few minutes. And when in doubt, go see the doctor. Better be safe than sorry. Trust me… you should…
Thank you…..
AndiMACs last blog post..Consistancy….
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You know I’m all about the boobies, if everytime I showed my boobies could help I would.
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Literally everyone I know, has had someone they know diagnosed with this… Early detection is key to the hope of surviving. No boobie jokes or nothing from me- imagine that!
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AndiMAC: Thanks Hon
Robin: Wouldn’t that be great if that would help? I would join in too!
Buff: Good boy! LOL
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That’s terrible. Thank you for sharing this with us. If it gets just one person to do a monthly exam, to get a mammogram… then you’ve done something extraordinary.
Finns last blog post..This? Rocks.
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Condolences for your losses Yvonne.
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Hey, maybe showin’ your boobies DOES help. Show ‘em to me and we’ll find out.
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Being single & all, SOMEONE’S gotta feel my boobies…may as well be ME!
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Finn: Thanks, that’s what I figured too
John: Thanks
Nobody: Maybe not… LOL
Tug: Amen Sistah!
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that was moving…I am sorry for your and The Kid’s loss…I stole your fell your boobies pic…smooches
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apathetic bliss: Thanks Hon, and steal away and spread the word. I ripped it off Google somewhere and I think the person that designed won’t mind as it is meant to get the word out
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I took one of the team and got my boobies squished earlier this month. Thank god that’s only once a year, or I probably wouldn’t have anything but a couple pancakes left. Oh well, it’s worth it to keep them safe, I suppose.
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i got chills at the “fight like a girl” with pink ribbon button.
i miss my mom.
great post db.
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