October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

                                                October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

My journey of breast cancer awareness began in 1979. At that time, I was a college senior and knew very little about cancer except that; mostly old people were beginning to die from this insidious disease. 

In 1979, my mother was diagnosed with a very small tumor in her right breast. At the time, chemo-therapies and radiation were not being implemented as treatment. And I believe this saved her life. The doctors performed a masectomy without reconstruction as it was early in the breast cancer business.. 

My mother lived another 30 years without any re-occurrence.. She did develop diabetes 2, which her father had, but managed to play golf, travel  and live a full life without any visits to the hospital related to breast cancer. She died at the age of 82 of sadness and heart failure after she watched my sister and dad struggle through their illnesses and die..

My sister was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 40. She tried every treatment available; chemotherapy, radiation, the shunt, and numerous pharmaceutical drugs that are now being recalled and taken off the market because they do not work and they KILL people.. After 7 years of constant doctor appointments, hospital visits, rounds of radiation and chemotherapy, my sister drew her last breath at the young age of 50. 

It is heart wrenching to watch someone you love die of this disease and to have it keep happening is hard to keep up with. We lost another sister this week to breast cancer after a hard fought battle..When God wants you, you should not fight it, you should go with the flow like my momma did..no drugs, no radiation just live with it and see what happens..

She lasted 30 years by just living with it and controlling her diet and alcohol intake..alcohol intake is a key factor in this disease, I believe.. as is sugar, flour and all processed refined carbohydrates and soda..

I pray for all of the women that are suffering from this disease and I know I am going to live my life a lot differently than most-- because I have lost so many people in the last 9 years to their untimely death assisted by the medical community trying to fight their “diseases”.. 

I don't believe there is a magic pill to cure all ills.. But I do believe in proper nutrition, rest and exercise and not too much of anything or anybody..

Except maybe prayer and spirituality...Another subject for another time..

Remembering all of our mothers, sisters and friends who have passed.. forever you'll stay in my heart.