My talk from today's worship service posted on my expressions page

Good job!
Your speech was great! Kudos to you for a job well done!
Hugs,
Linda

What needs to be said very
What needs to be said very nicely stated.

VickiSam said:

KUDOS - Traci!
so powerful, and true!


Vicki Sam

Great talk, Traci
and so true. I found myself nodding my head and saying, "Yup" to your comments. There is nothing so pretty about breast cancer that it should be wrapped up in a pretty pink ribbon. It is ugly, vile and wicked--just as all the other cancers. Unfortunately, I feel most companies jump on the bandwagon to boost their profit margins. I totally stopped supporting a very, very well-known breast cancer "non-profit" when I learned their CEO received a yearly mid-six figure salary--what?! Ridiculous.

Anyway, thanks for spreading some real words of help and encouragement.

Hugs, Renee

Well done Traci!!!

Well done Traci!!!

abrub said:

Thank you.
We rare cancer survivors (mine was Appendix Cancer) are particularly lonely. You spoke on behalf of everyone.

Thank you.

Alice

Superb!
Thank you for expressing this so eloquently. I hope more from the other boards access this talk.

You done good. .
Suzanne

TraciInLA said:

...the same CEO who now looks as though she's had as many facelifts as Joan Rivers? I've been wondering where the money for all that cosmetic surgery came from....>:-(

Traci

Passing Thoughts!
Your Talk was excellent! Your tree was very nice - like the color of the ribbons!

I was able to edit my comments about Nancy Brinker so I am. I realize that I knew very little about this lady. I did an interlibrary loan for her book "Promise Me: How a sister's love launched the global movement to end breast cancer". Her sister's children were not part of the SGK as their father did not want them to be "Poster Child" for the organization. He is a very private person. Susan's children and grandchildren do have a good relationship with their aunt, according to the book. I think if that wasn't so, we would have heard about it.

My opinion of Nancy has changed. I have always gave Nancy credit for taking breast cancer out of the closet and tying a pink bow around it. I said she must have hired a great marketing person when she learned that the cure were years away. Nancy is great at marketing that is what she was doing before her sister was diagnose with breast cancer. She didn't have to look for such a person, she is a great marketing person.

I found this interesting which was pretty much at the end of the book page 312


“If I have seen further than others,” said Sir Isaac Newton, “it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.”

We at SGK gratefully stood on the shoulders of giants, and we hope others will stand on ours.

Perhaps this will be where METAVIVOR comes in .... with the cure for Stage IV.

Nancy did fulfill her sister's wishes, "to do something with the waiting rooms and etc.". I thought the same thing when I was having a lot of surgeries. Why were the surgical rooms painted a seasick green instead of a sun colored room in yellow. It certainly would of help. I understand were her pink came in as it was the sister's favorite color and she was that kind of a girl.

Nancy does have good oncologist helping out in the scientific end of it. I am an admirer of two of them.

If you haven't read this book, I highly recommend it.

Best,

Doris

PS: Nancy does address the reason in what happened to the other cancers that you addressed in your sermon. It has to do with the "myth of the magic bullet" that was to cure all cancers back in the 1970's.
My post to you made me want to learn more about how it all began and I needed to learn more about it. I am so glad that I was able to rewrite my remarks that were in my opinion were catty. I still wish you would post the sermon. It was very, very good.