Breast Cancer

[Doris_Pinks]

A bit of promotion here for a worthy cause that is very dear to my heart, and THANK YOU very much Dan for allowing me to do it.

Please follow the link to purchase a wonderful calendar produced by one of my dearest friends Shona, (you can see another bestest mate in their too, Claire Badcock!) Shona came up with the novel picture concept after having a mastectomy, and needs to sell all 4,000 of them, the money is going to cancerbackup who gave her and her family and friends so much support.

Please send the link to everyone in your address books and help raise money for a wonderful charity, it would be very much appreciated by not only me, but everyone that was/is involved in the calendar,

I will let you know at the end of the year how much the calendar managed to raise for the charity,

Thank You


Dottie P

http://www.beautyandthebreast.co.uk/

[Doris_Pinks]

[Mrs Ava]

Oooo, good stuff!  I am off for a MacMillan  coffee morning at the school tomorrow...cream tea at 9am, well why not!  ;D  Good luck with the calender, I do hope it raises oooooooooooooooooodles of cash for a very worthy cause.

[Tulipa]

DP, thanks for that, it is such a worthy cause, I shall definitely buy one and spread the word, I seem to know so many people touched by breast cancer at the moment. :(

[lorna]

DP Me too

[Doris_Pinks]

Thank You, every calendar sold helps someone somewhere. :)

[prink13]

DP what a fantastic idea, and I was so please to see that the calender of Breast Cancer patients included a man! So often men are forgotten in this field, and it is very much thought of as a womans disease, I will but one for some of the family for Christmas - Thanks

Kathi

[lorna]

prink & doris I agree about the calendar including a man. My brother who died from cancer , which started off as breast cancer before other parts of his body. At the time I was undergoing treatment and I asked my specialist  how common breat cancer was in men. He told me he had quite a few men patients.
Lorna

[decrepit]

Every success with the calendar - it is cause dear to my heart too (experienced the hard way).

October is breast cancer awareness month.

Guys and gals - please, please regularly check out all your bits and pieces and query anything not quite right to what it usually is.

Sorry - don't really mean to sound like a a bully  :D

Keep well folks

[Doris_Pinks]

Apparently my friend that started this calendar is going to be in the audience of Sharon Osbournes chat show, filming today airing tomorrow at 5pm, thay will get to talk to her and hopefully get a good bit of promotion for the calendar, so fingers crossed and here's hoping they sell well!
Though on the down side it does mean I shall have to watch the show, never seen it before and have never fancied seeing it, if any of you watch and she is on, let me know!

[powerspade]

My beautiful wife passed away 20 years ago after fighting breast cancer for 4 years, I give to the local cancer hospital who do a lot of research.

[wellingtons]

It's a great idea, and I've posted it on another forum that I belong to that's an all girlies site.  So hopefully some of them will pick it up too.

My gym is asking all new starters this month for a donation to breast cancer charities instead of the normal £50 joining fee.  So hopefully that should raise a few pennies.

I'm a real pink girl so I love the products that are on sale in aid of breast cancer charities this month, have already bought the Swarovski bracelet and the Ri2k hangbag.  Will add a calendar to my stash tho

[lorna]

DP Will watch the 5pm show if poss.

[Hyacinth]

I bought Barbie pink secateurs for my friends 8)

[wellingtons]

Oh I've got those too Alishka ... and a pink trug, a pink fork, a pink trowel, and a pink kneeler .. and one of those pink bags to go round your waist to shove all your bits and pieces in ... oh and pink leather gloves .... ;D

Anyone see a theme here??

[Doris_Pinks]

Barbie Pink Secs, like that Lish! ;D

Wellies thank you for that, the more visability the calendar gets, hopefully the more that will sell. It is much appreciated. :D

Powerspade, so sorry to hear that, my beloved Aunt/Godmother lost the battle to breast cancer 6 years ago, it seems to be that it touches far too many of us. :'(  Great that you donate to your local hospital, I hold a coffee morning every year for the Macmillan Charity, in memory of my Aunt really.

Update on programme, apparently someone talked for too long, and my friend never got to talk on camera, which is a shame, but she and the other models seem to have had a good day out, and they have had a calendar signed by Sharon Osbourne, and photos taken with her that she says they can use on the website. So all was not lost.

[Hyacinth]

DottyP.....charity auction for the cal.? :)

[wellingtons]

Hmmm ... perhaps I should have added that one of the reasons I buy so many breast cancer goodies is that my mum died of breast cancer, as did every female cousin, including those in the US and New Zealand with the exception of my godmother.  Jennie, my godmother, has had a double mastectomy and is in remission and has been for years.

Please don't mistake my girlie frivolity for anything other than my way of coping.

[Doris_Pinks]

Not at all Wellie, if we didn't laugh we would cry!

Lost my Most Favorite Aunt/Godmother, Another Aunt, next favorite  Aunt has had a Mastectomy, loads of other related probs but still here and well (thank Goodness), 2 of my bestest friends have had mastectomy's and are both in the calendar, (both diagnosed in their 30's), but what we do not hear about enough, which the calendar is trying to promote, are that now you can survive.
Without all the wonderful research from the charities, support from families, friends,  etc. this would be a different story. (off my soapbox now!)
Oh and on that note, if my Aunt had gone to the Dr's when she first found the lump in her armpit, she would probably be with us now.........................left it till it was the size of a 50p piece! >:(

Oh and Wellies you might like this!!! ;D

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/4227717.htm
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[wellingtons]

Lovely kettle Doris!

And a bit of an update on calendars - think my girlie friends have ordered 4 so far!  They're a great bunch!

[Doris_Pinks]

Oh GREAT Wellies, thank them very much from me! ;D