By Melanie Bates
As I sit here drinking my sixth cup of java, my best friend is walking sixty grueling miles across San Francisco with a gnarly head cold.? It?s hard for me to fathom putting foot to pavement like that when I have to motivate myself to rise and patter to the coffee pot each morn, but she?s been inspired to help put an end to breast cancer.? So, when?Save the Ta-tas ? an organization simply slathered in Awesome ? asked me to be a guest blogger for Breast Cancer Awareness month I knew this was my unique chance to help women and earn a pink ribbon while still drinking my coffee.
I like boobs. I?m particularly attached to my own but I?ve never had breast cancer.? I?ve only known a few tough birds who?ve had it and they knocked it on its ass. However, I have had to strike a bargain with thyroid cancer and that?s close enough for me.? Not to mention that I once found a lump in my breast and had to lay on an ultrasound table while a stoic technician squirted cold goo on my chest and proceeded with a New York style photoshoot sans heavy make-up or the pretty poses. Don?t think for a moment that I wasn?t laying there mentally arranging the calla lilies at my funeral and picturing my family keeling over in grief. Fortunately, for me, I?m just cyst-y.
Breast cancer is a savage beast and I imagine it wearing a ruby red Luchador mask lined with golden swirls and silver glitter sporting a name like?La Cobra M?s Macho.? It wrestles women to the ground, it pile drives them, it pulls out its aerobatic fancy and it double nelson?s them into submission.
Sometimes.
But I would prefer ?sometimes? to become ?never.?? So I?m offering up five unique strategies for wrestling breast cancer into submission:
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Source: http://www.care2.com/greenliving/wrestling-with-breast-cancer.html
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