Welcome to the ELEVENTH post of the Saving Second Base project! Today’s contributor is my friend, Kim ******************************************************************************************************************************************* My name is Kim Hardwick and I am a mother of two boys. I started dating my high school sweetheart, who is now my husband, a few months after his mother, Nancy, had finished chemotherapy for breast…
Welcome to the THIRD post of the Saving Second Base project! Today’s contributor is Kim Read Kim’s post from last year’s Blogging For Boobs ********************** My Mom is my best friend and hero. Her strength continues to amaze me. I want to thank Rachel and Tricia for donating their time and blogs to help find…
I love Lotus. I have mentioned this many. many. many times. I think that the impossible has happened. Someone check and see if Hell has frozen over because honestly, I didn’t think I could adore Lotus more, and yet now, I do. Look what she has created for the Saving Second Base Project: I love…
The past two Octobers I’ve hosted a monthly posting of stories and letters from people who’ve been affected by Breast Cancer called Blogging For Boobs (I highly recommend clicking that and reading through the posts, they’re simply amazing) I was sitting thinking about how to make my 3rd year of Blogging for Boobs even better,…
I remember the pamphlet my parents gave me when I was six and my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. It was illustrated with colorful pictures of happy people and sad people, of healthy people and sick people, of normal cells and cancerous cells. The drawings of the cells were what fascinated me. There were…
When I was about 10 years old, my paternal grandmother became very ill. Unsure what was wrong, the doctors performed an exploratory surgery. They discovered cancer. In fact, she was riddled with cancer. The official diagnosis was liver cancer, but they didn’t know where it had originated. She was too sick to go through any…
Mediterranean Salmon (Lotus Says: “I found this recipe in a mag years ago and tweaked it”) Super healthy foods: olive oil, olives, salmon, tomatoes (cancer fighting lycopene!) 3 tbsp olive oil 1 tbsp lemon juice 6 cloves pressed garlic (adjust if you don’t like garlic as much – I love it!) 1/2 tbsp oregano 1/2…
It happened before I was born. The breast cancer diagnosis, that is. She was in her late 40s, taking a shower and found a lump in her breast. This was a time when breast cancer survival was far lower than it is today. A mastectomy was a radical procedure, but her doctor’s convinced her…
When Rachel said that she was dedicating the month of October to raising awareness for Breast Cancer on her blog, I knew without a doubt I wanted to be involved. Breast cancer touches all of us in some way. I know a woman who has been in remission for over five years. I knew a…
By my fourth walk through, I felt like I had what I needed. I took my basket to the cashier and began taking out each item, obviously keeping to a central color scheme. “You’re in a pink mood today,” the cashier said, taking over the task of emptying my basket. I explained why I had…
I’m only 26. I’ve always felt foolish doing monthly exams of my boobs (sorry, I can’t call these breasts. That makes them sound far more substantial than they are). When I first really got into the habit, I was 23, and statistics and family history were on my side. I had no reason to…
I bank with Bank of America and have pretty much my entire adult life. I have always been very pleased with their customer service and rates and blah blah blah.. Why should you care? Because today, I clicked on the Susan G Komen page and saw this: For each new Susan G. Komen for the…