From the first moment my wife discovered
she had breast cancer, there was a deafening silence from the men I know. Even
ones whose wives, mothers or girlfriends had breast cancer seemed to have
received a gag order from some Central Cancer Command and did little more than
mumble about the experience. Not one to shut up for any known reason, I started
this blog…
Two years ago,
my wife and I walked for a short time in my school’s Relay For Life event (http://breastcancerreaper.blogspot.com/2014/05/guys-gotta-talk-about-2the-relay-for_31.html).
We’re doing it again this year.
Unfortunately,
my wife’s best friend and her husband are also doing it with us this year…as a
breast cancer survivor. Yeah, once again, I get to say what I said here: http://breastcancerreaper.blogspot.com/2016/03/guys-gotta-talk-about-23f-cancer.html
At any rate, I
won’t only be walking, I’m gonna see if I can get a few donations by agreeing
to put the name of a person in my current WIP (for those of you who aren’t up on
the writerly lingo, that stands for Work In Progress!) The book itself doesn’t
have anything to do with breast cancer or any other kind of cancer for that
matter. I’ll just add the auction winner’s name into the book as a minor
character. It could be fun (though some people may not think being in an
electronic book is much fun – it’s not exactly like being in a paper book that
you can put on a shelf somewhere and forget but take down whenever you want to
show off a bit! But it’s something I can do that might tickle someone’s fancy
and it’s a unique skill in the overall view of the planetary population.
So, if you’d
like to sign up to support the Robbinsdale RFL (I guess I’ll also be speaking
briefly as a former caregiver, too!), then there’s a link below.
Truth? It feels
good to be doing something this year to support the research against cancer. I
love the way they phrase it on the website below: “…help finish the fight
against cancer once and for all!”
SIGN UP TO
SUPPORT US!: http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR/RelayForLife/RFLCY16MW?pg=entry&fr_id=71483
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