Times up! Random.org picked comment #1, Stephanie, as the winner. Thanks to all who commented. Please, keep going to PinkTogether and leaving comments to build the donations.
Pink Together. Individually we are strong, but together we are stronger. That's the idea behind PinkTogether.com, a group of 680,000+ breast cancer survivors and supporters. At PinkTogether you can share stories, post comments, and send virtual flowers to let people know you're thinking of them. You can also read positive, empowering stores from the 2010 Pink Together Survivor Ambassadors.
I think when someone is newly diagnosed with breast cancer, or when someone you care about is, it can help to hear the good-stuff, the empowering stories. That's one reason why I love the PinkTogether campaign. You can also hear their stories on the Pink Together Facebook fan page and YouTube channel and on special pink packages of select General Mills' brands.
To encourage people to post their personal connections, General Mills will donate $1 (up to $20,000) to Komen for each personal story submitted, encouraging comment posted, or virtual flower of support sent on PinkTogether.com, and for each shared message of hope posted on Pink Together's Facebook page during the month of October (up to $5,000). That $25,000 is in addition to the $2 million donation General Mills has already committed to Komen for breast cancer reasearch and education and community outreach.
To help spread the word about this wonderful program, My Blog Spark, working with General Mills, has provided me with a Pink Ribbon magnet, key chain, travel mug and drawstring backpack, along with coupons for free packages of Big G cereal, Green Giant frozen veggies, Macaroni Grill Dinner kits, Fiber One bars and Progresso soup. It was an awesome package to get in the mail, and, guess what? I get to pass one on to you. All of the items in these wonderful gift packs are from ShopKomen.com, where 25 % of the merchandise purchase price benefits Komen.
To enter, simply tell me in a comment, one way breast cancer has impacted your life.
For extra comments, follow me through Google's friend connect on my sidebar; or post on Facebook about this giveaway. Extra comment too just for visiting PinkTogether.com and checking it out. Just leave an extra comment for each of these you do. I'll pick a winner Sunday night, so you have until 9:00 PM Sunday, EST, to enter. Don't forget to leave an email address so I can reach you.
Get your mammograms, become familiar with your own breasts, nag your friends, moms, grandmothers, aunts into getting their mammograms. Do everything you can to try and raise breast cancer awareness, support early detection and stop this insidious disease. Together we can.
Incidentally, I'm following the story of a friend of a friend who is newly diagnosed with breast cancer. I hesitate to link to her directly here, I'm not sure how she would feel about that, but she linked to a list of the Top 10 Ways to Support a Spouse With Breast Cancer, a lot of it is specific to spouses, but a lot of it is just good information about how to give support to anyone struggling with this or any other disease. Check it out.
Thank you My Blog Spark and General Mills for providing me with this giftpack and the opportunity for one of my readers to win one for themselves.
I have 1 husband and 4 kids, 28, 21, 12 and 10... I'll be doing the mom thing forever, hence 4evermom.
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My step-mother died thanks to breast cancer. She passed away just a few days before we were to board flights home for our summer visit. There wasn't time for me to get home to see her or for the services before needing to be back in France to help my family travel. The Misses ask more and more questions about how Grandma died all of the time. And I get angry, for so many reasons. I hope and pray that a cure is found before one of our 18 female family members is diagnosed.
My best friend was diagnosed with inflammatory breast cancer when she was pregnant. She'd never heard of it, and neither had I. If you haven't, go here:
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Sites-Types/IBC
It's incredibly aggressive. Morbidity rates at the time were that less than 4% of women diagnosed could expect to live five years.
Six years later, she's here but fighting a recurrence in her bones. She is literally living proof that the research is helping and the battle can be won, or at least extended beyond what anyone thought. But if she is going to be able to watch her son graduate high school...they need to work fast!
Cancer is such a tough subject for me. I know that this month has been big for the breast cancer awareness. I sometimes feel that not all of the different types of cancers get as much recognition.
I know people around me that have/had breast cancer but nobody that is really close to me.
On the other hand, I have had 3 family members die in the last 2 years and a friend die this morning at 4:30am from other types of cancer. Lung, Colon, Pancreatic.
It's hard to have that much death so close to you and not think about your own mortality every single day. Cancer can affect anyone at any time. 2 of these people were less than 40 years old and another was barely over 40. It makes me try to live my life better and to give my kids my time now in case I don't get that chance later.
A good friend who held my baby shower for me died of breast cancer just after my son was born. I think of her often.
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I visited Pink Together and sent a flower of support to another friend.
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