How Do You PINK? Week 2

I’ve teamed up with a fab­u­lous group of women to join the Breast Can­cer Aware­ness month cam­paign. Each day we will do a “How do you PINK?” post. Below is the sched­ule. Be sure to stop by everyone’s blog and join our Mck­Linky with your “How do you PINK?” post.

Mon­days: Momma’Tudes
Tues­days: Jen Hinton.com
Wednes­days: Scraps of My Geek Life
Thurs­days: Faith, Hope, and Love
Fri­days: Cheryl Budge.com & Child­hood Cloth­ing
Sat­ur­days: Ban­ter­ing Blonde
Sun­days: A Busy Mommy

I’m a day late (and prob­a­bly a dol­lar short too). We have been fight­ing this flu bug in our house for 4 weeks now. The doc­tor says it’s H1N1, but he isn’t test­ing us. But just about the time every­one is well for about 4 days and I think we are over it, BAM…someone gets sick. Yes­ter­day my 6 yr old had a fever and my stom­ach and head were all messed up.

Hon­estly, I have a dif­fi­cult time writ­ing about breast can­cer mostly because I have not had it affect my life per­son­ally. Last Fri­day, I took over @banteringblonde’s MomAc­tive Blog Talk Radio show. I did some research about breast can­cer and I was really sur­prised at some of the sta­tis­tics and information:

• In 2009, there will be over 190,000 new cases of breast can­cer and over 40,000 women will die of breast cancer
• Breast can­cer is a ran­dom dis­ease. It does NOT always run in families
• 95% of the women with breast can­cer are over the age of 40
• 1 in 8 women will get breast cancer

Those num­bers just seemed enor­mous to me, but what really scared me the most?

Breast can­cer is a ran­dom dis­ease.

I always thought that because no one on either side of my fam­ily had breast can­cer, I was safe. I guess not.

So, How do you PINK? Let us know and add your blog post to the Mck­Linky below.

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