(x-posted from my blog, for those who don't read there)

Did you know that uninsured women are 41 percent more likely to receive a late-stage breast cancer diagnosis and are, therefore, three times more likely to die from the disease than are women with insurance? The National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP) provides low-income, uninsured, and underserved women with breast cancer screening, outreach and case management services, and much more. As of now, the program has served over 2.9 million women and provided more than 6.9 million screening examinations. Through the NBCCEDP, more than 26,000 cases of breast cancer have been diagnosed.

Last year, affiliates for Komen for the Cure provided more than $58 million in resources for screening, education, outreach, case management and treatment services in communities around the country. They also used that money to help secure an additional $10 million in state funding.

Please help me do my part to help Komen support this and many of the other programs for women and men touched by breast cancer! And maybe there'll be a little something extra in it for you. :)



If you donate $10 (US) or more, I'll send you one of these bookmarks, made by me. I am not a beader, but I'm pretty darn proud of the way they turned out. Each one has a ribbon-shaped charm, hanging from a wire-strung chain of Swarovski crystal beads. You'll need to email me your mailing address after pledging; the Komen site doesn't request it. (Sean/Kelly and Monique, make sure to send me yours!)



My fundraising goal is a very conservative $250, and I believe we can reach it. Please help? :smile:

I posted this to my main blog, but I know some of you don't get by there. It's important to me, so I'm putting it here, too.

On September 23rd, I'm running in the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure. My aunt had breast cancer, and my mom had a mass in her breast, which thankfully they decided was not cancer. It's a big deal; it's estimated that over 40,000 women will die from breast cancer in 2007.

Anyway, I've driven our local family club to form a team to run, and I'm trying hard to earn as much money for breast cancer education, research, screening, and treatment as I possibly can.

If you can sponsor me, click here. I really, really appreciate it.

Why? Here's why. Why, did you know that breastfeeding icons are offensive? Look at that little smile, if you can force yourself to do it, and when you've picked yourself up from your dead faint of mortification...

Go send Livejournal Abuse a letter (it will only take a second to fill in the blanks) to tell them how ridiculous they're being.

Huh. Here's that TrustFlow II thing. The following people are people who aren't on my friends list, but are pretty close by:

• piefessor (200 - 250)
• carollois, audreys_mommy05 (250 - 300)
• salsajo, cirocco, mom4safe, doesnotequal, ima_omi, swallowridge, shonianne, mira_laluna, daisyjo, jane_hates_dick (300 - 350)

( More results below the cut... ) So, who are these guys? Should I know 'em?

I used to have a passworded section of my site, but something got screwed up there, and I'm too lazy to try to figure out what. Suffice it to say, this is the new solution. It'll be mostly friends-only. If you want to read, email me or leave me a comment here.

If you've randomly come across me here on LJ, heading over to that link above is probably the best way to get to know me. Certainly, it's going to show what's immediately relevant about me better than anything else, especially a userinfo section that may or may not have been updated, at whim, in the past year or so. And, hey, I'm always ready to answer questions, etc. left via comments!