Thank you for taking the time with all that is going on to keep up with great work like the breast cancer survival update. My sympathies to you and your family.
Back more than a few years I read an article on some breast cancer doctors in Boston who feared the arrival of October – what they called “Pinktober” because of how hard the news reports and events were on advanced cancer patients. It was a time that the same thing had really bugged me. “Save the Boobs” t-shirts sold in bars. Chicago Bears game attendees given pink postcards with mammography information to take home to their wives. Is that an effective tool?
Although my wife did well decades ago with treatment of a localized case, I didn’t want to bring home routine prescription drugs for me or her with pink lids instead of white. You should have heard my discussion with the pharm-tech at the drug store. Me: you mean you don’t have any white lids in the store. Are you getting a special delivery of them on November 1st? Her: it's for breast cancer.
Anyway, it has really calmed down over the years. Thanks for the info.
Thank you for taking the time with all that is going on to keep up with great work like the breast cancer survival update. My sympathies to you and your family.
Back more than a few years I read an article on some breast cancer doctors in Boston who feared the arrival of October – what they called “Pinktober” because of how hard the news reports and events were on advanced cancer patients. It was a time that the same thing had really bugged me. “Save the Boobs” t-shirts sold in bars. Chicago Bears game attendees given pink postcards with mammography information to take home to their wives. Is that an effective tool?
Although my wife did well decades ago with treatment of a localized case, I didn’t want to bring home routine prescription drugs for me or her with pink lids instead of white. You should have heard my discussion with the pharm-tech at the drug store. Me: you mean you don’t have any white lids in the store. Are you getting a special delivery of them on November 1st? Her: it's for breast cancer.
Anyway, it has really calmed down over the years. Thanks for the info.
Dan, Skokie IL
I don't think I ever got the pink lids, praise the Lord.
It's like when people do the Autism Awareness stuff in April. I say: I'm pretty damn aware, thanks.