Breast Cancer is evil

today i am joining an Army of Women who are speaking out about Breast Cancer. By blogging about this worthy program, I hope to add my voice to a growing chorus about the importance of research on breast cancer. the Love/Army of women program is a unique program that allows women who have breast cancer and are receiving treatment, to voluntarily enroll in a research program. It also aloows those of us who are intersted, to provide information about things such as, if we recieved the depo provera injections, to track if we were to later on develope breast cancer. I am amazed at all the different ways there are for a person to participate in the process. I have a daughter and a son. I hope that one day, there will be no breast cancer, or no more deaths from it.

My stories of hope? my neighbor is a wonderful person. She has three daughters and one son. About 4 years ago, she found a lump. It turned out to be cancer. She had it removed, mastectomy and chemo and radiation. Now she is cancer free but she lives with the fear. Every cold, every day she feels rundown, she worries. Where i can just say, i must not be getting enough rest" when i am tired, she has to worry that she is experiencing a recurrence. It is not fair that she has beaten this disease, but can't leave it in the past.
My second story of hope? My employee is this sweet, kind person. Full of joy and grace. Raising a son who just started middle school. She found a lump, had a mastectomy, did chemo and radiation. She is trying to have reconstruction surgery. She too deals with the worry and the fear. It breaks my heart to see her worry. How does she do it? Where did this inner strength come from? I admire her strength but live in my own fear that it would happen to me or worse, to my children.
I urge you to consider joining the Army of Women fighting to take the bite out of this cancer. Please consider this your engraved invitation. and I pray for you all that you never hear those words or feel that lump. I pray for you and your loved ones, that breast cancer never effects someone you love either. God Bless you all.