
It is rare for me to use the word "hate" and mean it, but I HATE cancer and I mean it.
Cancer robbed me of knowing my mom beyond childhood; it deprived my children from knowing their "other" grandmother; it cruelly took my paternal grandmother away just months after taking Mama; and I’m so thankful to say, while my sister had cancer, it didn’t have her*–she’s a 10+ year survivor.
Because May is Melanoma and Skin Cancer Awareness Month, Karen at Simply Amusing Blog has been asked by a group of local oncologists to write about prevention; they’re using a Q & A format, and she’s asking readers for questions for the physicians to answer. Summer’s almost upon us, the sun will be blazing guns in no time, so her goal is to get readers to think about better choices before any damage is done.
If you have ANY question about melanoma or would like any area discussed, would you please follow the link to Karen and let her know? You can always leave a comment here, too, and I’ll compile any I receive and pass them along via email. Thanks!
Kudos to Karen for initiating this conversation…it’s "good" bloggin’, y’all :).
BTW, I bet she wouldn’t mind a bit if you wanted to pick up the graphic above and ask YOUR readers to submit questions (if you do, be sure to let me know and I’ll come visit and make sure Karen knows!!).
(attributed to my Survivor-friend, Kathy, aka Swampwitch)
Just so your readers know – that post will be up at midnight CMT. Thanks, Robin, for your help! 🙂
It breaks my heart that you were robbed of having your mom growing up – I’m so glad that your girls have you. 🙂
Thanks for this post. I’ll do a referral this week.
A worthwhile effort, Robin. I’ve lost two friends to cancer (uterine, myeloma) and survived cervical cancer myself. I’ll check your links. (((Hugs)))
What a great resource! I lost my mom to cancer as well and it is heartbreaking to think of my children not knowing her or her knowing them.
What a great idea! My friends and I were sitting around one day when the “cancer” topic came up. We realized that of the five of us, if statistics ring true, at least one of us would have to battle cancer in our lifetimes. A depressing topic, I know, but a very real one.
I’m going to hop over and look at some of the questions now…
Karen, I thought, “why wait to post? What if there are midnight readers who have a question?”. Of course, there weren’t, but this is so important, I would’ve wanted to err on the side of caution.
Jan, THANK YOU!
E-mom…I know about you…and I know what it means when those you love are affected. If you do a post on this, let me know, k?
Melissa, gosh, we have more than one bond, huh?
Susan, isn’t that something we’d rather not think about? To put it the way you did, it’s sobering….
Cool! good you shared this kind of post very informative
sphin