October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month!

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month!

and I would like to take this opportunity to say

a HUGE thank you to everyone who walked

and/or ran today in Canada's

 CIBC Run for the Cure!

The statistics for breast cancer are such that

it is near impossible not to know someone

(or many) who have been affected.

  

My dear friend LM and her son walked

today in the rain.....

R with his Pink Ribbon Tattoo 

As a survivor I can tell you there's no

better gift than to be in someone's thoughts

and prayers!  I don't talk about it a lot but am

happy to share my story if it helps anyone at

any time to lighten their worries.  I am one of

the fortunate ones.  My dear sister Jewel was not

so lucky and succumbed at the young age of 43

to this nasty disease. 

Julie & I when we were young.....

It changed my life when she died and needless

to say affected me even further when I fought

my own fight. 

What I learned.....

Take nothing for granted, don't

be held hostage by your past and never,

ever postpone joy!

With love and a glad heart.....

Think Pink!