After Earth Fr Cpasbien
Rubie Mccloughan
I started out like many breast cancer women do, looking to give something back when I finished my surgeries and chemotherapy. I was energized, and wanted to help. Of course, the Race for the Cure in Central Park is one way to do that.
It was a great day yesterday.
Paige and I woke up tired this morning, but happy.
Last night when we pulled into the garage I gently shook her awake.
I told her how proud I was of her.
I told her how happy Nana and I were that she had been with us.
How great it was that we had made a memory like that together.
How proud she should be that she and I had raised about $7000 for Komen for the Cure.
I guess I must have done something right along the way for when it came time to fight I did,
and I did it well.
But that struggle took its toll on me and I am quite sure I will never, ever be the same.
I think many of the big charities need to be looked at very closely. I only donate now directly to places giving research grants for both treatments to keep
metastatic patients alive and for groundbreaking work that will hopefully find a cure, even if only for certain types.
They work with women that have all cancers, not just breast cancer and they provide funding for wigs for women who have lost their hair, they run resume classes for women and men who are rejoining the workforce after being out with cancer or changing jobs and they send information on living with cancer all around the US.
I would love to know where you donate too. I have spent years walklng and fundraising for the ACS but am looking for a new foundation with the goals that you have mentioned above. Please email, me and thank you so much.
I have a fund set up at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital that is earmarked for research on metastatic (stage IV) breast cancer, what I now have. Too little money goes to research into advanced disease. Metastatic disease is the only kind of breast cancer that kills. You can see the page here. Thank you for asking. Another good place is Metavivor.
Please take a look at how the American Cancer Society stacks up against other charities. They received 2 out of 4 stars when rated. Take a look at their income and spending.
ACS is not spending much odn research. Without research, there will never be a cure.
When I had breast cancer the ACS did nothing but tell me they were going too send things they never sent and tell me they were going too get me info on a local group, nope never did, I called and called, nothing. They offered to give me info on the phone that is available on line. They said I could stay in their hotel by the hospital IF I got too the hospital info desk before 7 am and could get a nurse or doctor on the phone to verify everything and if they had a opening that I would be the best person for! Seriously! I am about too have major surgery and they want me to do all that to MAYBE have a place to stay the night before or after surgery!
The ACS did nothing for me. I could not even stay in the lodge. It is all about knowing someone in the city the lodge is in. They told me I would have to get to the hospital at 7am, find a social worker (how do you find a social worker at 7am?) Have the social worker call the lodge to give all the info to get me on the waiting list. They do send me catalogs to buy wigs and mastecomy bras, etc. at very high prices. What awareness is not already known? WHere does the tens of billions of dollars go?
There is little to no money that goes to research from this questionable charity. They pray on the victims of the horrible disease. They have commercialized a disease that strikes so many women and men and glamorized it in toxic products. They only contribute 18% of the BILLIONS raised to pharmaceutical companies to research drugs that the victims/patients of breast cancer then have to pay for (chemo costs upwards of $500,000) when they enter their local cancer treatment centers. SGK does NO chemo, surgery, radiation, etc. They are an imaging and patient education organization only. They educate the need for mammograms, not the treatment of the disease. It is a sham. Donate to your local Cancer treatment center, like here in central IL it is the IL Cancer Care Center/Foundation. MD ANDERSON, SLOAN KETTERING, ST. JUDE (childhood cancers and adult treatments) are all viable organizations that do REAL research on this disease and all cancers. SGK and Nancy Brinker have prostituted Susan Komen (whom I met before she passed and still associate with her husband Stan). The propaganda is extensive within this organization. I could go on for days on how this organization has played on each victim to have hope that SGK is finding a cure, when all they are doing is taking your money. Off my soap box for now.
I dont understand why its all about breast cancer. Dont they know that there r other types of cancer that kill. I would rather see a foundation that collects money from donations for the cure of cancer period. My wife died from multiple myeloma which is a type of cancer. So why should all the money donated just go for a cure of breast cancer. I dont understand it. And i will not donate to komen.
In March 2014 I was diagnosed with a 2cm tumor in my left breast and a LCIS (Lobular Carcinoma In Situ) separately. In July the Swedish Center in Seattle found Atypia in my left breast. I have completed 3 months of chemotherapy, the typical 34 rounds of radiation and now I sit and wait.
Liz, about a week ago I was diagnosed with invasive ductal carcinoma. I hope for the best since it is small, but still have tests etc before any surgery, but also know the worst can happen since my sister died from metastatic breast cancer just 5 months ago.
not a very nice person there dave, I help out on bicycle rides, walks, runs and such with the local ham radio clubs, and have for over 10 years. last summer on the way back from latham ks, a rest stop for the MS100 ride, I got to thinking, here I am helping out with a potentially deadly disease charity, when I have some myself. I have diabetes, congestive heart failure, Breast cancer (STAGE4) and now lymphedema all waiting to do me in. Yes, the treatments, tamoxifen and exgiva are painful, but I still go on working and helping those I can.
I became disillusioned with Komen years ago when I read how much money her sister made as CEO of the foundation (over $600,000) and that only 24% of the money raised actually goes to research of any kind. Most of the money goes to salaries, marketing, etc. Disgraceful.
My first reaction to the Planned Parenthood issue was, why is the Komen foundation donating in the first place? Their focus should be using my donation dollars for curing cancer. Both organizations are important, but Komen For the Cure is losing focus on their mission.
At first, I was so excited when Claudia told me that there was a group that brought awareness to breast cancer and helping women, but then got irritated too with all of the pink shit they were throwing at us.
OK, the gun is awful, but I lost any shred of respect I might have had for Komen with their fundraising PERFUME. Because, yeah, just what people with chemical injury and/or heightened sensitivity from chemo need: toxic fragrance chemicals.
I learned 15 or 20 years ago about all the corporate backing of BCAM (when it was called that, and before the pink ribbons). How prevention always focuses on individual choices, like diet and exercise, and how the vast, accumulating evidence of environmental causes for breast cancer were carefully ignored because the industries that make them were on the BCAM board.
Brenna, PP likes to say that only 3% of their services are for abortions, but since they count each service separately, the actually abortion rate is nearly 10% . They receive more than 900.00 tax dollars for each abortion. Almost half a billion tax dollars last year. They do not perform any mammograms.
After the Susan G. Komen Foundation announced changes to its grant criteria that would jeopardize its funding of Planned Parenthood, full-on hysteria erupted among the Left. Nothing less than an organized effort to destroy the Komen Foundation was hastily organized. Not a word of appreciation for the billions of dollars Komen has directed to the fight against breast cancer was spoken. Their continued funding of Planned Parenthood was, quite simply, compulsory and not open to review, even though their stated reason for re-considering their funding pertained to ongoing Congressional investigation of Planned Parenthood.
Remember, the Democrat Party was ready to cut off military payroll checks to protect that compulsory Planned Parenthood funding. Unique among private organizations in the United States, you have no choice but to fund Planned Parenthood. Private organizations that provide them with direct funding are not allowed to reconsider that decision, for any reason.
Parasitic morality is an important building block of Big Government, which in turn is very nourishing for organizations like Planned Parenthood. We hear such formulations all the time. If you oppose a tax increase, you want poor people to die. If you demand government spending cuts, you must want to yank cops off the street, and doctors out of emergency rooms. Challenge Big Government in any way, and you are clearly a hateful enemy of whatever virtuous dependency group it chooses to hide behind.
There are many ways people and organizations concerned about breast cancer can battle it more effectively, and more in accordance with their own moral standards, without pouring money into the coffers of a massive abortion provider. Writing at Life News, Dr. Gerard Nadal has one such suggestion:
maybe now SKG will start showing their numbers towards..AN ACTUAL CURE. leave the pink baloney and yellow ribbons aside for a moment- give us some support for those who now battle this prolific disease. What about prevention eduacation?
I learned so much in your blogpost that the news about this recent issue of Komen v. Planned Parenthood, or any other breast cancer coverage, could convey. Thank you for sharing. Thank you for enlightening.
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