My circle of breast cancer friends are without my biggest supporters. Our fearless leader just had surgery last week, and even so she is ready and willing to take on the White House on the new indications of Mammograms.
Here is a Link Please Read and Pass it On. Look HERE.
You heard me correctly. There is an idiot, yes an Idiot in the Government that is saying women can wait till age 50 to get a mammogram for breast cancer and be safe. I know this blog is not supposed to be about politics but I am a survivor and I will not shut up. If some idiot from a President I did vote for I would say the same thing. This statement will allow women to die an unpredictable early death, that could have been prevented.
Why do I think I am an expert? Well experience, frankly. As is often said in my neck of the woods, “anyone with half a brain” would know better. I was 46, I met only met a breast cancer patients that were 18,23,28,34. Did they deserve a fighting chance at life? Yes! Does every woman out there with breasts need a mammogram at age 40, well at least at age 40. The death rate before 40 is not in a woman’s favor. I did have symptoms that everyone had told me was not breast cancer. I had pain, I had this uncomfortable feeling in my breast, it would throb. Do I think it was the beast? You betchya!
Do whatever you can to fight this before any woman in America actually thinks this idiot has at least “half a brain”.
Here is a LINK.
Please share this link with as many people as you can pointing out the reality of women dying an early unnecessary death.
I had a tough day yesterday. Whenever I think I am having a no good day, there are people in my path that have and are enduring great amount of pain. This song goes to Nicki and Gina. My breast cancer buddies, who are in H*(& on earth today. The pain they are in is almost unbearable. I love them both, and seychelles to for reminding me what song I love from Elvis.
Nicki and Gina you are not alone! We are here holding your hands.
I did not find the CMA video of Brooks and Dunn with ZZ Top but I did find two songs I still sing to this day!
First Up Gimme all your Lovin
With the reference of Dallas, Texas you know I had to share it. Yes that ballad that changed me from classic acoustic to Southern Rock.
Every Bar has a secret, every Starbucks has a huge steamer that forces hot air into milk which creates a foam. You can take soy milk, or non fat lactose free milk(yes I do) and turn it into a foamy cream that you will honestly enjoy. So buy your Great Value Coffee at Walmart for less than 7.00, then buy an Aerolatte for about $20.00. Voila you have endless fancy coffee for a fraction of the cost of any Starbucks or gourmet coffee shop, it does a great lowfat milk shake as well. I bought my Aerolatte on Sunday, it was my birthday gift to me. I should have wrapped for Hubby, because I will no longer be longing for fancy coffee I cannot afford.
Here is a video of how it works.
I missed them, I was helping a friend go through a family member’s estate. I am going to look for a you tube video of Brooks and Dunn with ZZ Top. Two of my favorite musical groups!
I was surprised Taylor won Entertainer of the Year. She is so young, it is hard to keep up that momentum at such a young age.
In the meantime I found this video which is one of my favorite songs!
I am doing this not because I have lost weight but because a good friend of mine has lost 50 lbs. She still has 50 more to go she says. Honestly she has never looked better. I asked her some simple questions. Like how exactly did you do it?
She was gracious enough to go through what she does. She swims 30 minutes each morning at a community pool. She heads out the door first thing, takes her work clothes and hits the pool. She gets cleaned up there and heads to work. She does exactly what works for her. She goes to Weight Watcher meetings, but doesn’t do points or core. She counts calories in a basic way. She also goes out to eat whenever she wants to (I know I was stunned). Her trick is a child’s plate and no guilt. She ate TexMex with chips and salsa but instead of a regular plate with lots of extras, she ate a child enchilada plate. She gets home and walks her dogs for maybe 20-30 minutes depending on her schedule. Then when my other friend comes home she does a quick 20 minute walk. Instead of sitting on the phone and talking, they walk and talk. And Yes she does workout 7 days a week.
I have never seen her look better or happier. She says she has never been happier. I am going to detail it because honestly this stuff for the most part is doable!
The fact that she looked good Hubby had already heard, good news travels fast.
I get in the mood for certain music. Today it is the Eagles in 1977, there is nothing better that I remember than Hotel California. I sang it on enough trips to never forget the song.If you are going to listen to the Eagles of 1977, why not watch pictures from that time period?
Time to fess up. I knew Bill Engvall a very long time ago. There is something about those pictures with his semi-mullet that looked familiar. For a long time I thought it was just the feeling you get when you know someone talks in a similar manner, with a similar view. Anyway I found this video and I just think it is too precious not to share, it is Bill at his finest! I guess that is his son as a young boy who is grown tall now.
The video is not working I will try and get another copy of it. In the meantime this is a great video of Bill being Bill
Reconnecting with old friends on facebook has been fun. My cousins told me I would find everyone I went to school and church with. I was skeptical. After all I graduated with a class of 650, versus the 100 my kids graduate with. My church had the same number of people as the town I live in. I didn’t think there was any way with the way people scatter and our age I would ever see any of them again.
I found quite a few, in time I believe I will find hundreds of people from my past. Seeing pictures and videos from when you are fifteen has a wonderful feeling. The past I experienced is not a black and white photo in a box, it is part of the world preserved by friends who figured out how to make it special and last for a bit longer.
All I can tell is once I found one person everyone else popped up. One by one I found people that I knew decades ago. Most of the women look almost the same. The gorgeous ones are still breathtaking. The men have a tendency to change the most, mostly because of the lack of hair. But there is something magical about a person’s eyes and you see the young man of years gone by.
I only got on facebook because my cousins told me to, they talk often and we are not getting any younger. My son told me they were begging to speak with me. At first I was worried sick about what I said. Now I see how many are on it, I am who I am and the reality is it is only as scary as you allow it to be.
That being said I am middle-aged. I post when I get time, and only if I want to. So many friends begged me to get a facebook and sent me links but I just didn’t think I would like it. Yesterday when I found videos and songtracks of my young I was hooked.
That and the page that honored my 8th grade English Teacher, who would be horrified at my lack of focus on verb conjugation on my blog. I wish I had her curriculm, apparently others do to. Her stuff is no longer taught in school, and our written word is suffering greatly by not having her type of English teacher. Language Arts is not what she talk, it was English starting with the breaking down of each and every sentence. It was during her class I realized how little I paid attention to detail of what I wrote. She did change my life, and I don’t know where she is.
For those of you that know I am a Central Texas Gal, all Fort Hood discussion will be on my other two blogs. I want to keep this blog free of the pain of this situation.
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