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Good News About Cancer
For anyone who has a loved one suffering with the physical, mental, and emotional trauma of cancer, or who is suffering themselves or in fear of it, the American Cancer Society has given us some good news. Not a cure–yet–but something to give us hope. Here’s what the Society found:
- The rate of people dying from cancer has continued to decline for 25 years.
- Between 1991 (peak cancer deaths) and 2016, there have been an estimated 2.6 million fewer deaths from cancer.
- These declines are being seen in breast, lung, prostate, and colorectal cancers.
They attribute it to three major factors: people are smoking less, cancer is being detected earlier, and treatments are improving.
Get more current details at the Society’s article Facts & Figures 2019: US Cancer Death Rate has Dropped 27% in 25 Years
What a Dog-Gone Day Today Is!
Today, and every Aug. 26 since 2004, is National Dog Day. It’s a day for all of our dogs, pure-bred or so mixed they have to be referred to as “American.” The day was established to remind us of the multitude of dogs that need to be rescued or re-homed, and the many way dogs serve us–protecting us, searching out bombs, drugs, and humans lost in earthquake rubble, helping the blind and disabled, and, in recent years, detecting seizures and cancer in people. Read about this day and its significance at About National Dog Day.
Meanwhile, I’m remembering all my past faithful furry friends and celebrating Rosie, my re-homed companion/helper, shown here when she couldn’t decide on whether to continue her nap or play.
Inviting Childhood Disease
Measles can harm a person for life, and it’s staging a comeback from 20000, when the disease was declared eliminated in the U.S. 2018 was bad, with 349 cases in the U.S. It was the second worst year for that disease in twenty years. Mainly because so many parents refuse to vaccinate their children. Last year, there were outbreaks in the 25 states that have communities of anti-vaccination communities.
Again and again scientific proof has been presented that the vaccine is NOT harmful and DOES protect our children. It also protects infants under 12 months and people with health issues, like cancer, who don’t have the option of getting vaccinated. Yet measles spreads so easily–you can get it by entering a room or touching a surface within a couple of hours after an infected person has done so.
Learn more by reading Measles was no big deal — until my daughter caught it.
Giving a “Lyft” to Cancer Patients
Lyft is now life-sharing in addition to ride-sharing. It is working with the American Cancer Society to give cancer patients rides to their medical appointments. This is a big deal because transportation to the all-important, frequent appointments is a major difficulty for many people.
So far, it has been a pilot program in Las Vegas and Miami, but it’s expanding. Contact the American Cancer Society and Lyft to encourage it in your area.
Learn more about this Road to Recovery program–how it works, eligibility, volunteeering–at https://www.cancer.org/treatment/support-programs-and-services/road-to-recovery.html
A Beautiful Way to Honor His Wife
A Wisconsin man wanted to honor the wife he lost to a 9-year battle with cancer, and he wanted that honor to reflect the beauty she left behind in his heart. She loved all flowers, especially sunflowers. He recalled the field of sunflowers they had grown together 4 years before, and he created a 60′ x 4 1/2 mile field of sunflowers in her memory. It spans 5 farms–neighbors rented him their land for whatever price he felt was fair.
But there’s more. The seeds will be collected and sold to raise money for other cancer patients and their families–they’re calling it “Babbette’s Seeds of Hope,” after Don Jaquish’s wife.
Read more at KREM.COM.
Society Says, “Die Alone”
Imagine you’re dying of cancer and totally alone, 24/7, except for the doctors who visit to take care of you. Now imagine you’ve been on death row for 34 years because, as a dumb 24-year-old, you thought signing a confession would give you rest from the 3 days of constant questioning you’ve been going through. You didn’t commit the crime–as all the evidence indicates–but you did sign that confession.
This is the plight of a real-life person named Max. Despite the fact that he has very little time to live, evidence that shouts “not guilty,” and a questionable confession coming out of confusion and exhaustion, Texas will not grant him and his family the basic human compassion of being allowed to die at home and with those who are suffering with him.
Sr. Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking, explains more about it in Let Max Soffar, an Innocent Man, Die at Home. Read it and watch the video. Then, if you agree, sign her petition on that same site.