National Breast Cancer Awareness Month

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. It is the time for us to stop and take stock of this disease and how it is effecting the lives of so many people in this world. There is hardly any person that does not know at least one individual, be it a woman or a man (and yes, men get this too), that is effected by this disease.

The best ways to stop breast cancer is through awareness and research.

Learn all you can about this disease
Know the warning signs
Learn how to give yourself a regular breast self-exam
Know your family history and your genetics
Donate to your favorite breast cancer charity
Donate to the American Cancer Society
Plan or participate in a local charity event

To find out more about this disease and how to help, go to www.nbcam.org.

If anyone you know has this disease, support them, be a friend to them. It is one of the best ways you can help them personally. They need strength during this time to fight this and heal. Your helping them will allow them to use their strength for this purpose and not for concern or worry about other things in their life that need to get done.

Also, LAUGH, for it is one of the most healing activities we can do. Rent funny movies, do dumb things, but laugh, laugh, laugh.

I recently ran across a saying on a bracelet on Catalog Favorites about cancer. It is very inspirational so I thought it would be appropriate to recognize it here. It reads:

What Cancer Cannot Do…..

It Cannot…..