Ladies! Listen up! Catching breast cancer early is the key to surviving it! Breast Self Exams (BSEs) can help you to detect breast cancer in its earlier stages. So, on the first of every month, give yourself a breast self-exam. It's easy to do. Here's how. If you prefer to do your BSE at a particular time in your cycle, calendar it now. But, don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
And, once a year, get yourself a mammogram. Mammograms cost between $150 and $300. If you have to take a temp job one weekend a year, if you have to sell something on e-Bay, if you have to go cash in all the change in various jars all over the house, if you have to work the holiday season wrapping gifts at Macy's, for the love of the Goddess, please go get a mammogram once a year.
Or: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pays all or some of the cost of breast cancer screening services through its National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program. This program provides mammograms and breast exams by a health professional to low-income, underinsured, and underserved women in all 50 states, six U.S. territories, the District of Columbia, and 14 American Indian/Alaska Native organizations. For more information, contact your state health department or call the Cancer Information Service at 1-800-4-CANCER.
Send me an email after you get your mammogram and I will do an annual free tarot reading for you. Just, please, examine your own breasts once a month and get your sweet, round ass to a mammogram once a year. (Mattsmom, email me! I owe you a reading!)
I got my annual mammogram last Saturday. Who knew they did them on Saturdays? I asked as a joke when scheduling it, since there's usually a 3-4 week wait when it's for a check up. The appt was 3 days later.
I'd email you about that reading, but I can't find your email on the blog, so if you could email me, that'd work too. Theotherwash at yahoo dot com.
I'm a woman, a Witch, a mother, a grandmother, an eco-feminist, a gardener, a reader, a writer, and a priestess of the Great Mother Earth. Hecate appears in the
Homeric Ode to Demeter, which tells of Hades who caught Persophone
"up reluctant on his golden car and bare her away lamenting. . . . But no one, either of the deathless gods or of mortal men, heard her voice, nor yet the olive-trees bearing rich fruit: only tenderhearted Hecate, bright-coiffed, the daughter of Persaeus, heard the girl from her cave . . . ."
3 comments:
GOOOOOOOD MORNING BAZOOOOOOOOOOOOOMS!
Hecate, you did a reading for me last month (thank you so much!!).
Ooooo, that's me! *waves hand in the air*
I got my annual mammogram last Saturday. Who knew they did them on Saturdays? I asked as a joke when scheduling it, since there's usually a 3-4 week wait when it's for a check up. The appt was 3 days later.
I'd email you about that reading, but I can't find your email on the blog, so if you could email me, that'd work too. Theotherwash at yahoo dot com.
Thanks, Hecate!
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