Funny how time flies. I wrote the below blog. It is now July 6th, 2009 and I didn't even remember starting the blog. WOW............

It is Saturday, January 31, 2009 . It's almost 1:30pm and am still in my pjs......LOL Why am I here? I have no clue. Yet, somehow, here I am. I am a very lucky person. I have lived enough years to know there is so much more to learn and yet never enough time. Hmmm, sounds "heavy". It just means we make choices and those choices take us to places. Kind of like today. I could make this day very fulfilled and productive (ah but procrastination got in the way). I decided to first check my email. This lead me to a scrapbookers blog or two or three and ended up here. What lead you here? Tell me............... ps. if you know who I am, you can find me on myspace and on facebook! AND HAVE A WONDERFUL LAZY SATURDAY!!!!!!!!!!!

Here we are 6 months later and things are not quite so relaxed and peachy-keen.

My story in short:

These past 7 + yrs I have been through a lot. I had an emergency appendectomy which lead to other icky findings. Shortly after that my father died of multiple cancers and parkinson's disease. Shortly after that I had another emergency surgery due to masses near my colon (ended up benign), then came the loss of my baby boy 20 weeks into the pregnancy. As if that wasn't enough, then I had breast cancer. During this same time we lost my mother and father-in-law (they were closer to me in many ways than my own parents).

But let's not dwell on the crappy stuff for now.

Instead I would rather focus on something positive, something good. Something worthwhile.

My choice is breast cancer.

I want to help others. I want to pass along knowledge that I have learned and help raise funds that will help those in need. You can read my story and help by going to http://rfcp.convio.net/goto/DevraS

Then once you have read that page and/or made your donation, come back here and comment away. Tell me your story or comment on mine.

The conversation around the need for mammograms, early detection and finding a cure is a conversation we need to keep going................