There is a reason for everything.

Where do I start?  I started this blog as a way for families to tell their stories of their experience with breast cancer.   My family is a group of people that has been inundated with breast cancer.  For 20 years it has been a topic of conversation in all household in my family.  Each person has had to deal with this disease and as we know all people handle things differently.  Whether you are the cancer patient, the husband, sister, brother, son, daughter, niece, aunt, uncle, etc, we all have feelings and emotions about how this affects our family.   One of my goals for this site is to have a place where anyone can go and hear how some one experienced this disease; the good, the bad, and the ugly.
My inspiration for this blog came from the picture below….  I am going to start with my story but I’m going to start a little out of order. 

The Pink Glove Dance

Providence St.Vincent's Medical Center in Portland, Oregon put together this video to spread awareness for Breast Cancer through their hospital system. As you can see in the video below, Medline has a new line of pink gloves - which is worn by the cast of this video.

This is a great way to help spread awareness, and is a lot of fun to watch.

Please share this with as many people as you know - Medline will be offering free mammograms to the community once the view count reaches 1 million. Here is an excerpt from the email.



Emily (MacInnes) Somers, created, directed and choreographed this in Portland last week
for her Medline glove division as a fundraiser for breast cancer awareness. This was
all her idea to help promote their new pink gloves. I don't know
how she got so many employees, doctors and patients to
participate, but it started to really catch on and they all had a
lot of fun doing it.


When the video gets 1 million hits, Medline will be making a huge
contribution to the hospital, as well as offering free mammograms
for the community. Please check it out. It's an easy and great
way to donate to a wonderful cause, and who hasn't been touched by
breast cancer?