LIVESTRONG Day 2009
TGIF Friday, October 2, 2009
So, yesterday I wrote I was going to have a guest post today. Yes, the guest blogger was all ready to roll but in the interim, I got a request to post about LIVESTRONG Day, 2009. My guest post will be Monday. I do want to let you know that this guest blogger has a giveaway on his site, FitJerk's Fitness Blog for a Hand Grip Exerciser. That way we can all get strong and BEAT CANCER!!!!!
I am sure all of you know about Lance Armstrong and his battle with cancer that lead to the LIVESTRONG bracelets & his Livestrong Cancer Awareness site. Well today, October 2nd, is LIVESTRONG Day 2009.
Yesterday, MizFit had a guest blogger, Jacki Donaldson. Jacki wrote this post for MizFit. I made a comment there & one of the readers, Janell, emailed me & asked if I would blog about LIVESTRONG Day 2009 today. Well, of course I would so that changed my plans for today's post. And of course, it is Breast Cancer Awareness Month!
I also want to honor my mother-in-law, my hubby's mom. Today is her birthday & she passed away from small cell lung cancer a few years ago. We miss her! She was a great person!
Janell asked me to spread the word along with telling how cancer impacted my life.. so that is what I am doing today. First though, I want to share Janell's email with you so that every little piece of information is here. She is also having a giveaway at her site, Thufferin Thuccotash - Laughing & Suffering tomorrow.
So here is here email:
Hello Jody,
So, yesterday I wrote I was going to have a guest post today. Yes, the guest blogger was all ready to roll but in the interim, I got a request to post about LIVESTRONG Day, 2009. My guest post will be Monday. I do want to let you know that this guest blogger has a giveaway on his site, FitJerk's Fitness Blog for a Hand Grip Exerciser. That way we can all get strong and BEAT CANCER!!!!!
I am sure all of you know about Lance Armstrong and his battle with cancer that lead to the LIVESTRONG bracelets & his Livestrong Cancer Awareness site. Well today, October 2nd, is LIVESTRONG Day 2009.
Yesterday, MizFit had a guest blogger, Jacki Donaldson. Jacki wrote this post for MizFit. I made a comment there & one of the readers, Janell, emailed me & asked if I would blog about LIVESTRONG Day 2009 today. Well, of course I would so that changed my plans for today's post. And of course, it is Breast Cancer Awareness Month!
I also want to honor my mother-in-law, my hubby's mom. Today is her birthday & she passed away from small cell lung cancer a few years ago. We miss her! She was a great person!
Janell asked me to spread the word along with telling how cancer impacted my life.. so that is what I am doing today. First though, I want to share Janell's email with you so that every little piece of information is here. She is also having a giveaway at her site, Thufferin Thuccotash - Laughing & Suffering tomorrow.
So here is here email:
Hello Jody,
We are trying an experiment for this Friday, LiveStrong day. I posted about it a few times this week. I've asked everyone I can reach though I am especially interested in reaching cancer patients (and health & fitness bloggers for the very reason you've mentioned in your guest post on Mizfit's site today - the exercise component). We're also having a give-away of items from the Lance Armstrong Foundation. I wanted to do something to acknowledge and recognize this day due to my own diagnosis two years ago. I would be thrilled if you'd get the word out to your readers and post a short post about the impact of cancer on your life you'd like on Friday (tomorrow) and direct people to my blog to comment (or post their own blog url so I can read over this weekend) or if they want to put their short post about how cancer has affected their lives in the comments section, that's fine too.
With your own experience, it would be ideal if you can contribute your own story (then perhaps a comment on my blog) and encourage your readers also to post and spread the word. If they want to put their name into the (chemo) hat for the giveaway, tell them to come over and comment on my blog.
LIVESTRONG Day is October 2nd to coincide with the date Lance Armstrong was diagnosed with cancer 10 years ago. Not to be left out, I was diagnosed two years around this same time.
LIVESTRONG Day is October 2nd to coincide with the date Lance Armstrong was diagnosed with cancer 10 years ago. Not to be left out, I was diagnosed two years around this same time.
This online event is an official LIVESTRONG Day event sanctioned by the Lance Armstrong Foundation.
Below is a cut & paste from Janelle's blog: (you do not have to cook a thing!)
I so like the idea of cooking something yellow (eggs, lemons, lemon bars, lemon brownies, lemon pie, lemon chocolate chip cookies, lemon fudge, lemon chocolate pie) to commemorate LIVESTRONG Day 2009 though I am not a food blogger -- still nothing can keep me away from looking and fantasizing over their blogs. LIVESTRONG Day is October 2nd to coincide with the date Lance Armstrong was diagnosed with cancer 10 years ago. Not to be left out, I was diagnosed two years around this same time.
Since Lance's recovery from cancer he has gone on to win le Tour De Frah-hance, France seven times (!) and just this year he came in third place after a four year break. (What the hell have I been doing? cruising graveyards, blogging, disturbing people, -- long list!)
The foodies and winos have been blogging the LIVESTRONG Day for a few years. I'd like to see as many of us cancer/fitness/health/whatever bloggers as possible work unify our blogwork to support LIVESTRONG Day 2009 as well. Because we aren't foodies or winos (admittedly in our blogs), one way to unify is to write a short post on how cancer has effected your (our) life because I have a feeling it has affected many of our lives in one way or another.
Or you can make me some yellow food and send it over!
Blogging this date (and Fridays are notoriously slow blog days) is one way of supporting the Lance Armstrong Foundation by raising awareness of cancer issues world-wide. It is a way for bloggers to share their stories, poignant, devastating, thrilling, celebratory and triumphant. If you haven't been bulldozed by a cancer diagnosis, you can still participate. Write about a friend or post a prayer.
Then stop by my blog and leave a short comment with a link to your post. I'll put all your comments in a chemo-hat and pick 14 names of folks who will *win* a small though significant LAF token of appreciation for helping us come together to commemorate the day.
Sound like an simple deal? It is as long as you don't have a cancer diagnosis!
OK everyone... can you head over to Janell's blog & help her out & maybe even win something!!! If you want, you can send them here for the info if you don't want to type up a whole new post or an add on for your Friday post. Let's help stop this horrible disease! It comes in all forms.
My story: My aunt had breast cancer WAY WAY WAY back when before there was good ways to treat it. She did live to her early 70's but had many side effects from the treatment way back then. My grandmother, nana as I called her, got breast cancer in her early 80's or maybe it was late 70's. She passed away from what I believe may have been a spread of the disease. We never did an autopsy. Her brother died of bone cancer. One of my grandfather's had a brain tumor that may have been cancer. It was when I was very young that he died. My mother-in-law died from small cell lung cancer & as all of you know, I lost my mom to liposarcoma. How has it effected me... BIG TIME! I could write a lot more but the most I can say is that the whole 6 months plus that I lived & breathed my mom's cancer, took her to doc appts. and chemo appts., helped her go to the bathroom & more as she got worse, administered hospice approved drugs to her as she lay in a coma & then watched her take her last breath .. well, that says it all. Unless you have cancer itself, this was just the worst! But I will say, exercise helped get me through this!!!!
Please help! Thank you!
I think this is a great cause. I didn't realize that you had so many relatives who fought cancer. Thanks for sharing this Jody. I'm going to go back and add this as a P.S. to my post today!
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Diane, thx so much for linking back here!!! I thought I would mention that I added that it is my mother-in-law's bday today. She died from small cell lung cancer. Don't smoke out there!
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Grampy died of brain cancer at age 55 and at the end didn't know his daughter's name. I remember his head being shaved and having scars carved all over it, kind of like a Frankenstein look to a young adolescent. Very scary.
All these cancers are terrible and can bankrupt families emotionally and financially. One excellent free resource, especially for individuals and families of those who have more rare cancers, is ACOR: Association of Online Cancer Resources, http://www.acor.org/. It is an excellent cancer online community managed and written by people who are dealing with the same health challenges as you. My feeling is that everyone (or their family) must be their own advocate. There's so much bad and conflicting info. out there and so many misdiagnoses that everyone needs to realize that they HAVE to be an active participant in their diagnoses and treatment. ACOR is great because others have, or are, going thru the same disease and speak about clinical studies, treatments, side effects, best treatment facilities, good and bad docs, etc. Patients can have the info. needed to make more informed decisions. As I have always said, Knowledge if Power. We found this an excellent resource. (Some of the docs. get defensive when patients are informed, but too bad--we're fighting for our lives or the lives of our loved ones.) Unfortunately, due to the early misdiagnosis of our mother, we lost precious time and several of the treatment options, like clinical studies. Then, of course, she passed away within 6 months of her diagnosis.
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YES, Bethe, thx for mentioning ACOR. A great resource for cancer patients & their families. We used it when my mom was sick.
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it's definitely LIVESTRONG day! i've seen it all over blogtown today! thanks for sharing and getting the charity and message out there!!
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Great cause and a great post!
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Great cause! I will help to spread the word. Thanks for bringing up this topic, it's good to know.
My father-in-law has terminal lung cancer with 3-6 months. And no he never smoked! It was a shock for him to have lung cancer when he is a serious anti-smoke person.
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Kellie, I am so sorry about your father-in-law!!!! Like Christopher Reeve's wife who died of it but did not smoke!
My thoughts are with you & your family!!!!
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Cher & Jack, thx for visiting & supporting!
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Hi Jody, I tried to post to you several times from home this weekend but was booted out. My home connection is so slow.
Thanks for this wonderful post for LIVESTRONG. I appreciate your efforts to get the word out. We'll be doing it again next year. Thank you again and again.
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