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I Beat Cancer...So Can You!

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I tell everyone who needs to know that I'm a breast cancer survivor.  I tell them calmly and matter-of-factly.  I don't make it my life story because it isn't...but I do share when people need to hear it.  And I tell them how I did it.  I tell them it was a no-brainer because, I get my yearly checkups done EVERY.SINGLE.YEAR.

Because of this, nothing serious gets a chance to sneak up on me.  It takes a long time for something inside you to manifest into something that can kill you so if I got a good checkup last year and they find something this year...then I'm confident it won't be anything that will kill me.

EARLY DETECTION IS KEY.

And Imma do what the doctor I trust, Preston Sacks, tells me to do.

I beat cancer because my mother took me to the doctor yearly for my checkups and I continued that.  I do them every year around my birthday so I don't forget.  I was with doctors for my birth so it seems fitting that I'll be with doctors every year for the anniversary of my birth.

Some friends were discussing how their insurance only pays for certain tests every other year now or every five years.  Fortunately, because I'm a cancer survivor, my insurance can't do me like that but...if they did, I'd honestly pay for the tests out-of-pocket.

Why?

Because I love my life, I love living and I'm living proof that EARLY DETECTION IS KEY.

When's the last time you got checked out?  

What are the rules of your insurance company?

Have they changed recently regarding what tests are covered when?

Have you had any "scares" recently?

 

 

P.S.  If you're in the DC Metro and would like an EXCELLENT gynecologist,  Preston is amazing.  I can't sing his prayers high enough.  I don't know if he's taking new gyno patients but he takes my personal calls and emails and has never turned down someone I sent to him personally yet.

Nick News with Linda Ellerbee: "Coming Out"

The other day, a child I love was watching "Sponge Bob" on Nickelodeon.  The child's mother was passing by the room where he was watching it, during the day, and was stopped in her tracks about a promo of a show, "Coming Out," about gay children coming out.  The show was going to air at night...but the promo was shown during the day.  One of the kids in the promo was a 7 year old boy.  Others were teenagers.

Upon investigation of the show, she found that the emphasis is on preventing bullying against gay kids and she got that, of course, but she still felt some kinda way about the promo running when it did on a channel she allows her young child to watch before 6pm.

Where are you on this?  

You good?

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Women and Ambition

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This is a great article about women and ambition with several different points of view.  We Asked Women How They Really Feel About Ambition -- This Is What They Had To Say

Which do you most identify with?  What would your 20 year old self say if they saw where you were today?  Would you be in line with what your aspirations were?  Did becoming a mother change your career goals?  Are you exactly where you think you should be now?  Are you STILL ambitious?  

 

 

P.S.  Yall KNOW why I'm super grin-t up right?  RIGHT!  LOL!  THAT'S MY DAWG!!!!!!!!