BlogHer - cancer - Comments

It hurts that they can't understand

Beth Terry — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:14:36 -0600

"Of course, the language barrier is even more excrutiating when your pet is facing cancer and you want to explain what is going on. Still, petting, snuggling and hugging seem to work effectively. Just keep dishing out the love to those great animal teachers and they'll get the message."

Oh my god, no kidding. My kitty Arya and I bonded completely when she broke her leg last year. I was the only comfort she had, snuggling and kissing her and crying because I couldn't explain the pain or the big lampshade around her head or the itchy staples in her leg or why she had to live in a cage for a month. We named her Miss Hobble Bobble after she was allowed to walk around outside the cage for a bit. Here's a video. It's funny. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqrD3HarnuI She Did recover fully into the punk rock kitty she always was. I realize this has nothing to do with dog cancer, but it does have to do with comforting a sick animal.

Beth Terry
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Prevention is better than a cure

BugginWord — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:01:32 -0500

Thanks, much.

Denise, I've been working on this a while and was inspired by your "pink" piece to post it here on BlogHer.

I recently participated in Light the Night for the LLS. The event was great and I met some fantastic people, but as I held my plastic balloon with a plastic light inside it powered by a pair of batteries that was certain to end up in a landfill, I was more than a little overwhelmed by the thought of how many carcinogens had been produced to bring the event to fruition.

When people ask me if they can donate to support those fighting cancer, I'm going back to my original suggestion to fund organizations like EWG. Sure a cure would be great, but I'd really rather never have cancer in the first place.

Elly
www.bugginword.com

I had to favorite this post

sassymonkey — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:52:35 -0500

And then chatter it and twitter it.

The most basic human actions - eat, drink, breathe, and sleep – are life threatening and it’s MY battle with cancer? Cancer can appear at any age, at any time, in any place. It will continue to do so, and with increasing frequency unless we change our thinking. This is OUR battle.

Loved this.

Sassymonkey and Sassymonkey Reads.

This is a great post

Denise — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:47:25 -0500

I particularly agree with this:

As cancer rates continue to explode across this country (and in far greater numbers than other countries) why do we continue to place the responsibility on the individual? As much as I’d love to find a cure for all the various cancers plaguing the populations of the world right now, I’d love even more to prevent them.

~Denise BlogHer Community Manager
Flamingo House Happenings

You're A Soldier

souldose — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:18:11 -0500

http://souldose.com Girl I wish you a speedy recovery, you sound like a really strong woman and your strength is truly amazing.

There are a lot of women out there ready to listen, please don't forget that and keep fighting. I alreay see bravery in you.

Thanks!

wendyfarha — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:49:22 -0500

Thanks, grooveymom. Wow, you were only 11 - that must have been SO hard. Hopefully you've been able to hold some memories of her in your heart...did you have many pictures to remember her by?

I found the View All posts, and I figured out how to do my profile, so that's real progress right there, eh? ;)

Hope you have an awesome weekend, and if you're Canadian, have a great l-o-o-ong weekend!

Wendy

Welcome to Blogher.....

grooveymom — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:00:08 -0500

http://www.grooveymom.blogspot.com Hi Wendy! You do have a great spirit! Good luck with your recovery....and keep up the fight! It's my biggest fear.....breast cancer. I lost my mother to breast cancer when I was 11 years old.......

as for blogher, I am fairly new to it as well, your post shows up on View all posts. When you are on the home page the posts shown are from the Blog editors...not sure how you become one of those....but if you click on view all posts, you can see all posts there. They are posted from the most current.....so to see yours go down and click on a few pages back to find it. If you have questions, just post them, people here are very eager to help.

grooveymon

Whee!

wendyfarha — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:56:24 -0500

Hi Christinajeanne, you're the first person to comment on my posting . . . thank you! You should win something, I think. It's like you're the Welcome Wagon (er, do you know what that is? It used to be popular a long time ago but I dunno about now . . . ) I'm really new to this site, obviously, so not sure how you saw my posting - does it pop up somewhere under "new entries" or something? I also haven't figured out how to fill in my profile section yet . . . oh, well, all in good time! :)

Talk to you soon and thanks again,

Wendy

You have a great Spirit

christinajeanne — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:31:52 -0500

I wish you the best of luck in your recovery. I look foreward to reading more from you.

Crowns

Ladyinhershoes — Wed, 27 May 2009 13:02:39 -0500

Ladyinhershoes, I say you are doing a wonderful thing and your heart is in the right place.

It's no wonder half of America has chronic conditions

Cherre — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:35:54 -0500

Maybe we've lived this long but who isn't on some kind of sleep med or anxiety pill or has some kind of food allergy? What's the cause? Maybe all these weird chemicals in our system. I do try to get off the grid a little, I like how you said that. There's nothing wrong with using vinegar and baking powder to unclog a drain. Or sesame oil instead of moisturizer. Sometimes it can be cheaper than the commercial product, for sure! I wrote about the sesame oil here: http://doesabodygood.blogspot.com/2009/01/ayurveda-skincare-and-not-slipping-in.html

scary, huh?

kazari — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:10:37 -0500

You could always take Linda Cockburn's example. Her website is here:

http://www.lintrezza.com/

They turned a suburban block outside of Brisbane into an (almost) self-sustaining permaculture garden. And she has some fun things to say about soap. And goats.

After that experiment, they bought a bigger block in Tasmania.

Oh yeah, they have a child, too, who seems pretty happy with most of the things they do. And the goat.

I wonder how any of us have lived as long as we have!

KellyJaye — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:29:27 -0500

I thought I had heard it all....

STLtoday.com article -- "JEFFERSON CITY, MO.: Libraries scoff at warning of lead ink in books"

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/nation/story/F2BCCA6DBAA86DA88625757D0014D283?OpenDocument

LOL!

SCanon — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:06:59 -0500

You took the words right out of my mouth. It seems like everything is killing us these days. I've considered "hermetting up," as I call it quite a few times. The life of a forest-dwelling hermit sometimes seems like the sane idea...at least to me. Anywho, homemade soap? Miller's Soap Page is really informative and caters to newbies. You need some extra space to make homemade soap, but when you go off the grid, that won't be a problem. Maybe we'll bump into each other. I'll be the crazy looking one with twigs in my hair mumbling about killer spinach.