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I'm so sorry about what has happened to you.

posted 3 years, 7 months ago
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I'm 51 and have had an annual mammogram since I was 40. I've never had a problem and have no risk factors and am fine with holding it to every other year. I do, however have several friends who have had breast cancer, one whose cancer has metasticized to her bones (and now other organs) after 10 years. She had a variety of symptoms that, in retrospect, were indicators that the disease had  spread. But her oncologists had never warned her of these symptoms or what to look for. Neither of these friends were given any regular kind of screening (other than mammograms) after their cancer or a list of symptoms to look for that would indicate the cancer had spread.  It has been hard for my friend, and those of us around her, to know that the symptoms were there and she didn't know what they meant.

posted 3 years, 7 months ago
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I AGREE!!! Fear keeps us from having real conversations with our children, open discussion about these issue, about the fact that we have differences of opinion. Kids can handle alot, especially being spoken with on an equal level, on a level that prompts them to think and consider and look at things from many positions.

In a time of "sexting" it's hard to believe someone is making an issue of a woman in her bra on stage---in the context of a story. It is an opportunity to see someone being comfortable with their body, not showing it off in a strip show type of dirty dancing or a picture senty over cell phone -- but part of a story.

posted 4 years, 3 months ago
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