It's breast cancer awareness month and guess what I did. I became a living, walking poster.
Last week we attended the Dynamo game against L.A. Galaxy and I put sunscreen all over my arms and shoulders and face. Note to self: testing a new sunscreen on the arm for an allergic reaction is not the same as testing it on the face. I broke out in a horrible red rash that I had to explain away to my students he next day. But the rash disappeared within 48 hours.
What did not disappear was the sunburn on my chest and neck where I had neglected to apply any sunscreen at all. Even after one week, I have a painful sunburn in the shape of the pink cancer awareness ribbon around my neck and on my chest. I kid you not. It will peel and fade to a light shade of breast-cancer-awareness-pink that will last for months.
Dear Nancy Brinker, have I gone too far for The Cause?
No, I will not post a picture. That's just gross.
About Me
- Erin
- This is a picture of my daughter, Maura. She died from metastatic high-grade unclassified sarcoma* on May 19, 2009 at the age of 22. For one year I wrote about her journey with cancer. I don't know if I'll keep writing now or if I'm done. We'll just take it a day at a time. *Sarcoma is a little-known, under-researched, under-funded cancer. To contribute directly to research please consider giving a gift directly to: MD Anderson Cancer Center- Donations, PO Box 4486, Houston TX 77210-4486 ****(Please write "In memory of Maura de Souza " in the memo portion of the check to make sure it goes directly for sarcoma research.)
4 comments:
You should post a pic!
Tentative research on my tumor type showed that the BRCA gene may be involved. There may be a genetic link between breast cancer and MPNST and there have been cases where a woman with breast cancer went on to develop sarcoma. Intriguing. I hope they expand on this finding and in October, we can have a pink AND yellow ribbon. Please do not go out and get another ribbon shaped yellow burn.
Thanks for taking one for the team ;-)
LOL erin!
I definitely second Matt's comment. PHOTO! PHOTO! PHOTO!
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