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Breast Cancer T-Shirts
I love life
Sure - its been very difficult at times over the last couple of years but I haven't lost sight of what's really important. Family, fun, laughter and the ability to find enjoyment in even the darkest of days.
So .... to celebrate that .... and to move on beyond the ubiquitous pink ribbons which are now found virtually everywhere - I asked my son Nic to design a new T shirt logo. You can see it to the top left of this page. I love it and wear it regularly.
Anyway - I've had so many people approach me and ask where they can get one too that Nic has teamed up with Cafepress.com to offer them for sale worldwide.
Here's the deal - each T shirt is available in a range of styles and colors. We'll arrange to donate five dollars to breast cancer charity for every one sold. The quality of the garments is great and Cafepress offer a great back up service should you have any problems.
Follow
this link to see bigger pictures and to explore the range of options that Nic has created.
Move beyond pink ribbons and show the world that you love life too !
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Pink is the New Black
If you don't already know about it then please take a look at
Annette's Angels - it's a great site set up by a family in memory of their mom, Annette Roberta.
They wanted to reflect their mother's strength in their website and - as they say - " while we love and applaud the effectiveness of the cute pink teddy bears and the flood of pink ribbon pins in raising awareness, we wanted items that reflect our ANGER at this disease and our POWER to fight it"
They commision designers and craft workers to create unusual items - each giving a very individual slant on the wear pink theme.
It's a great site - go give them some support
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McMillan Cancer 4x4 Challenge
Team Mud Takes up the ChallengeTwo brothers - an Edinburgh Dentist and a Medical Rep based in Northern Ireland are attempting to raise an amazing amount of money for the McMillan Cancer Support charity.
They've already reached the £3000 mark and are aiming to raise much more if they can.
Take a look at the
Team Mud site for more details and lend them your support
Good work guys - go for it !
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Breast Cancer - You're Having a Laugh
Finding the funny side of breast cancer treatments
As I suspect many of you reading this will know only too well - it can be hard to see the funny side of things when you and your family are coping with breast cancer and its treatment. The disease has a habit of taking over your life when in fact you should be striving to ensure that the very opposite is happening.
Writing a regular blog- by the way - is a mixed blessing in this regard. Writing regularly about not getting obsessed with cancer has a habit of making you ... well .... obsessed with cancer .. damn it!
But it's also true that keeping things in perspective and having fun in your life is crucial.
Laughter really is the best medicine - proven time and time again in countless medical studies. Laughter also works to boost your immune system when it's at a low ebb.
So ... how do you find the funny side?
You could start by taking a look at Miriam Engelberg's site -
Cancer Made Me A Shallower PersonMiriam has taken her breast cancer experience as a stimulus and in many ways an inspiration to create an off beat and irreverent look at life from the perspective of a breast cancer survivor. It's all done in the form of comic strips - some of them
directly about breast cancer and others about her wryly observed looks at daily life and its absurdity.
She also writes a blog as a day to day diary of life and how breast cancer can affect it.
Well done Miriam - we love what you're doing.
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Surviving radiotherapy treatmentMarjory won't start radiotherapy until the four sessions of CEF chemotherapy (FEC chemotherapy in the UK) are over but we've already begun chatting about how she'll cope with phase two of her
breast cancer treatment program - radiotherapy to the chest wall and to the supraclavicular lymph node area.
Where better to look for advice than to someone who has already been there, done that ... got the T shirt. Jacki Donaldson has a great
post about surviving radiotherapy on the Cancer Blog.
Check it out - it's very well written and gives some great tips for dealing with radiotherapy side effects.
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