Breast Cancer Awareness Month

In case you haven't heard, October is Breast Cancer Awareness month.  I'm jumping up on my soapbox today to urge you to get up off of your butts and do something about it. 

Women (and men) can start by doing a self-exam the next time you're in the shower.  Doctors recommend doing a self-exam every month. 

Us gals 40 and older need to get an annual mammogram.  Yes, it's not the most pleasant experience, and it's downright painful, but the discomfort is well worth it if it can save our lives.

If you're in the Louisville area next Saturday the 9th, you can participate in the Race For A Cure.  If you don't want to run or walk the 3 1/2 miles, you can email me and sponsor me.  Just give me money and I will walk for you.  How easy is that?

You can buy specially marked bags of pink and white M&Ms.  For each bag sold, M&Ms/Mars will donate 50 cents to the Susan B. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.  Who doesn't like M&Ms?  This promotion will only be available until the end of November.  So buy early and buy often.

Here's some celebrities who are breast cancer survivors, and thanks to doctors, researchers and organizations like the Susan B. Komen foundation, they are still entertaining us today:

Shirley Temple Black
Dihann Carroll
Edie Falco (star of The Sopranos)
Jill Eikenberry
Linda Ellerbee
Peggy Fleming
Betty Ford
Nancy Reagan
Kate Jackson
Jaclyn Smith
Ruth Handler (creator of the Barbie doll)
Patti LaBelle
Rue McClanahan
Olivia Newton John
Lynn Redgrave
Cokie Roberts
Richard Roundtree (Shaft)
Carly Simon
Gloria Steinham
Suzanne Sommers

Others weren't as fortunate, and lost their battle to breast cancer:

Julia Child
Bette Davis
Minnie Pearl
Linda McCartney
Dusty Springfield
Skeeter Davis
Ingrid Bergman
Erma Bombeck
Jill Ireland

Let's all take good care of ourselves; I want us around for a long time.