Turning Lemons into Lemonade – Breast Cancer Victory
ByWhen you are facing a major challenge in life – the trick is to turn your lemons into lemonade.
One of the goals that I have with this blog, is to help you to turn weaknesses into strengths – so that you or your loved ones can succeed with ADHD.
As many of my subscribers know, my family has been touched by breast cancer. It is a big challenge to say the least.
I am writing this article to point you to a friend of mine – Sylvie Fortin – who has taken massive action since her diagnosis of breast cancer. She has taken her diagnosis, and used it as an opportunity to do massive good in the world. She is publishing a blog at: Breast Cancer Victory. She is sharing very intimate and personal information about her feelings, her treatments, and her whole journey.
I just read Sylvie’s most recent post - Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow. In it, Sylvie describes how she is going to shave her hair prior to starting chemo. She is doing this for 2 reasons:
- To donate her hair to Locks of Love, a charity which takes hair donations and creates wigs for children who have medical hair loss.
- To raise money for the Avon Breast Cancer Crusade
Here is the amazingly creative part – Sylvie has created an outstanding approach to raising money. You may have heard of ‘pixel pages’. These hit the news about 6-12 months ago. Basically, someone could buy some ‘pixels’ on a page, and get a link back to their website.
Sylvie is going to ‘sell’ square inches of her scalp!
When you make a donation to the Avon Breast Cancer Crusade, through Sylvie’s blog, then you can have recognition of your donation and even a link back to your website (if you have one), on Sylvie’s ‘virtual scalp’.
I wanted to share this with you, because this is an outstanding demonstration of courage and resolve to help others. Sylvie is definitely making lemons out of lemonade.
The sad reality is that breast cancer is too common, and if it hasn’t already touched your life or your family’s life, then it likely will.
Here’s what I suggest:
- Visit this post on Sylvie’s blog: Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
- Read it, and consider donating to this great cause.
- Email your friends and family about it – send it to anyone you know who has been touched by breast cancer (just copy the link into an email and send it to those who will want to know about this)
- If you have any media contacts – please let them know about this great fund raising campaign. This will help to raise more funds, raise more awareness, and help in the process of beating breast cancer.
This letter was very touching. I certainly know people with cancer, and this approach would have made a world of difference. I will definitely pass it on. How we, as parents of adhd kids, take this lesson and use it with our kids? Maybe we too can turn their lemons into lemonade???? Well????
Sylvie is a very good case for fighting breast cancer with positive attitude. I definitely tell her story to others.
My wife is a breast cancer survivor… It is always great to know about positive news in the breast cancer research field. More good energy to keep us together against breast cancer. From Australia, a big Thanks you DOC for sharing !
And positive news:
A study conducted in Sweden found that more than 40 percent of widowers in that country whose wives died from cancer four or five years earlier reported they were either never told that their spouse’s cancer was incurable, or they heard this information during the last week of her life. Eighty-six percent of widowers believed next-of-kin should be told immediately when a wife’s cancer is incurable, including 71 percent of the men who did not recall being told this information. The study, which is the largest to explore this topic, is being published online July 10 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology (JCO).
First and foremost if you wish to be cancer free you must alkalize your body.
Chemo is big Pharm way of further poisoning the body. Chemotherapy is a carcinogen.
Hi. I just visited Sylvie’s blog and I’m glad to hear that she survived. I would point eveyone there to get some first-hand inspiration.
My grandmother had breast cancer and had a masectomy. She was a survivor, but ultimately lost the battle as cancer spread throughout other parts of her body. It was about 14 years after the masectomy when she passed away.
I’m glad Sylvie is doing well. I pray that one day our fine scientists and doctors will cure cancer once and for all.
I think that is a good way to reward your donors. No doubt, I good link can worth a lot in SERPS or PR. On the other hand, I want to point that it is not “Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow” but “Hair Today, Give Tomorrow” so you have replaced Give with Gone.
“I had breast cancer last year which made me fall into a huge panic. After several doctor visits, I was almost assured that there was no real remedy for me. I was referred to Sergei Djava with my last hope to heal my problem and it worked. I am now cancer free and living my life. . God Bless Sergei Djava and Andiwellness.”
~Mary F.