The Pink Ribbon.....
Posted 10-03-2007 at 07:00 AM by mycoupons
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. This month is dedicated to increasing awareness about this terrible disease, now affecting one in eight women.
Did you know that an estimated 178,480 new cases of invasive breast cancer are expected to occur among women in the United States during 2007? An estimated 40,460 women will die from breast cancer. It is estimated that 2,030 men will be diagnosed and 450 men will die of breast cancer during 2007.
I had my own scare about 4 years ago. You see, I had not been vigilant in having my yearly mammograms. It had been about 2 years since my last one. It happened they day I had gone in for a long needed physical exam, when my doctor discovered a lump in my breast tissue, She immediately picked up the phone and called a surgeon.
It was a very small lump, located on the left side near the beginning of my arm pit. I tell you this to show how important it is that you make sure you religiously go for mammograms, especially if you have breast cancer in your family. I had an aunt who had died from breast cancer, when I was very young.
The doctor hung up the phone and she handed me this piece of paper with a date for an appointment with this surgeon for 1 week later. She explained that, "it was imperative that it be removed and biopsied and that time was of the essence".
I've been blown away by many things in my life, my mother's death to ovarian cancer at age 54, followed a few years later by my 60 year father's diagnosis of Alzheimers and now me.
Here I was, just right at that mid 40 point and my youngest child was only 9 years old. My mind now was truly in a whirlwind. You have friends and family telling you, "no worry it will turn out to be nothing, you will see". Yes, there was very much a chance that it could be nothing and you hope to God it is nothing, but none the less, you still can't help think the worse.
That week was one of the 3 longest weeks in my life. The other two were the week of waiting for the surgery and the other week, waiting for the biopsy results. I prayed to God as I had never prayed in my life.
The day of the surgeon appointment came. My dear husband took me and held my hand as we sat and the surgeon examined me and the lump. I could do nothing but shake and hold back tears from falling from my eyes. The appointment was made for me to have outpatient surgery 5 days later. I have to say one thing, my doctors where quick to react and take care of this lump and I thank God.
The day of surgery has arrived. I report to the hospital at 7 a.m. very very scared and very very tired as I hadn't slept a wink the night before. The nurse directs me to the changing room, where I remove my clothing and put on a surgical gown. The doctor now enters the room and informs my husband and I of what they are going to do, runs their last minute quick test, and that I will be shortly taken into the surgical room.
It's time, they wheel me into the surgical room, and then they proceed to hook me up and intravenously feed me meds to knock me out. The last thing I remember before going out, was "thinking" I had seen my late mother sitting in a chair in the corner of that surgical room, saying "it is going to be alright".
Awhile later, I found myself laying in the bed in the recovery room with my husband holding my hand.
Within that week, the diagnosis came back, it was benign. It was not cancer. Thank you God! Thinking back maybe I did "see" my mother. Maybe she came to tell me I was really going to be alright.
With this, breast cancer is not just an important issue to me, as well as other cancers, but breast cancer is important to all of us here at MyCoupons especially Greg Stoltz, the President of MyCoupons, who himself also has been touched in his life by this terrible disease.
That's why here at MyCoupons we're committed to help with the fight against breast cancer. Helping to educate our members about breast cancer prevention, screening, and treatment by providing an easily accessible resource library with educational information. PLUS MyCoupons will make a donation of $.10 to also help in the fight against breast cancer with our Coupon Codes for a Cure Campaign.
Just look for merchants easily identified by the pink ribbon next to the name of the store.
So won't you help us in the fight against breast cancer? You can read all about our Coupon Codes for a Cure Campaign right here and Greg's own personal experience with this disease
http://www.mycoupons.com/coupon-codes-breast-cancer-awareness.html
Hey, here's an idea! Why not create one of your own blog's this month right here on MyCoupons with your stories or personal experiences of how breast cancer has touched you, family or someone you know. We can call them the "MyCoupons Pink Ribbon Blogs".
Don't know about MyCoupons Blog. It's easy to create one,
There is FREE blog software built-in with your MyCoupons Member Toolbox. Just click on the Install Blog icon. Your blog will publish to "<your membername>.mycouponsblog.com" for the whole world to read and enjoy.
Join the Millions Saving Billions at MyCoupons.com
Please join us in the fight!
Thank you!
Warmly,
Annie~
Did you know that an estimated 178,480 new cases of invasive breast cancer are expected to occur among women in the United States during 2007? An estimated 40,460 women will die from breast cancer. It is estimated that 2,030 men will be diagnosed and 450 men will die of breast cancer during 2007.
I had my own scare about 4 years ago. You see, I had not been vigilant in having my yearly mammograms. It had been about 2 years since my last one. It happened they day I had gone in for a long needed physical exam, when my doctor discovered a lump in my breast tissue, She immediately picked up the phone and called a surgeon.
It was a very small lump, located on the left side near the beginning of my arm pit. I tell you this to show how important it is that you make sure you religiously go for mammograms, especially if you have breast cancer in your family. I had an aunt who had died from breast cancer, when I was very young.
The doctor hung up the phone and she handed me this piece of paper with a date for an appointment with this surgeon for 1 week later. She explained that, "it was imperative that it be removed and biopsied and that time was of the essence".
I've been blown away by many things in my life, my mother's death to ovarian cancer at age 54, followed a few years later by my 60 year father's diagnosis of Alzheimers and now me.
Here I was, just right at that mid 40 point and my youngest child was only 9 years old. My mind now was truly in a whirlwind. You have friends and family telling you, "no worry it will turn out to be nothing, you will see". Yes, there was very much a chance that it could be nothing and you hope to God it is nothing, but none the less, you still can't help think the worse.
That week was one of the 3 longest weeks in my life. The other two were the week of waiting for the surgery and the other week, waiting for the biopsy results. I prayed to God as I had never prayed in my life.
The day of the surgeon appointment came. My dear husband took me and held my hand as we sat and the surgeon examined me and the lump. I could do nothing but shake and hold back tears from falling from my eyes. The appointment was made for me to have outpatient surgery 5 days later. I have to say one thing, my doctors where quick to react and take care of this lump and I thank God.
The day of surgery has arrived. I report to the hospital at 7 a.m. very very scared and very very tired as I hadn't slept a wink the night before. The nurse directs me to the changing room, where I remove my clothing and put on a surgical gown. The doctor now enters the room and informs my husband and I of what they are going to do, runs their last minute quick test, and that I will be shortly taken into the surgical room.
It's time, they wheel me into the surgical room, and then they proceed to hook me up and intravenously feed me meds to knock me out. The last thing I remember before going out, was "thinking" I had seen my late mother sitting in a chair in the corner of that surgical room, saying "it is going to be alright".
Awhile later, I found myself laying in the bed in the recovery room with my husband holding my hand.
Within that week, the diagnosis came back, it was benign. It was not cancer. Thank you God! Thinking back maybe I did "see" my mother. Maybe she came to tell me I was really going to be alright.
With this, breast cancer is not just an important issue to me, as well as other cancers, but breast cancer is important to all of us here at MyCoupons especially Greg Stoltz, the President of MyCoupons, who himself also has been touched in his life by this terrible disease.
That's why here at MyCoupons we're committed to help with the fight against breast cancer. Helping to educate our members about breast cancer prevention, screening, and treatment by providing an easily accessible resource library with educational information. PLUS MyCoupons will make a donation of $.10 to also help in the fight against breast cancer with our Coupon Codes for a Cure Campaign.
Just look for merchants easily identified by the pink ribbon next to the name of the store.
So won't you help us in the fight against breast cancer? You can read all about our Coupon Codes for a Cure Campaign right here and Greg's own personal experience with this disease
http://www.mycoupons.com/coupon-codes-breast-cancer-awareness.html
Hey, here's an idea! Why not create one of your own blog's this month right here on MyCoupons with your stories or personal experiences of how breast cancer has touched you, family or someone you know. We can call them the "MyCoupons Pink Ribbon Blogs".
Don't know about MyCoupons Blog. It's easy to create one,
There is FREE blog software built-in with your MyCoupons Member Toolbox. Just click on the Install Blog icon. Your blog will publish to "<your membername>.mycouponsblog.com" for the whole world to read and enjoy.
Join the Millions Saving Billions at MyCoupons.com
Please join us in the fight!
Thank you!
Warmly,
Annie~
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