Cervical cancer bracelet - thanks Karen!

[mixtymotions]

Thank you SO much for that link, Karen. I hope a kajillion people order their kits! My daughter and my sons' girlfriend (I hope she'll soon be my daughter in law) have cervical cancer and have had a portion of their cervix removed. I'd never heard of HPV until my daughter was diagnosed, and now I can't pick up a magazine or watch a television program without some mention of HPV - which is GREAT, because it's getting the word out! Please post the link to the site here, so all Rudies will have the opportunity to support this vital research.

[Cardiffgal]

Mixty,

Hope your gals will recovery from their illnesses. Please post the link.

My cervix is gone as well - but maybe you can save someone else's :) .

Thanks

[KarenSews2]

I had no idea! Hope all is going well with your girls!

BTW...I'm STILL waiting for you to help me with my sewing room! :p

[mixtymotions]

Karen...you didn't post the website! Okay, I'll do it, sheesh, I have to do everything, including organizing your sewing room ! :p

http://www.maketheconnection.org

The bracelets come 2 to a kit, so you can give one to a friend. NO MONEY was asked for - can you believe THAT? I had them sent to my daughters' address, so she can give one to my hopefully, future daughter in law. Both of them are doing well, although my sons' girlfriend had to do the procedure twice, because the Dr. ran out of liquid nitrogen or whatever they use to freeze the cervix in the middle of her surgery!

Please support research by ordering YOUR bracelets today!

[DaveM]

Wonderfully, a vaccine for HPV has just been approved. This vaccine, if administered to every child of school age, would essentially wipe out cervical cancer in one generation.

Naturally, the "Moral Majority" people are against it, claiming that the vaccine will cause more teenagers to have sex (!). What can one do but sigh. By one estimate, 60% of the U.S. population is infected with HPV, the primary cause of cervical cancer. Since it has no symptoms in most, especially men, I have little doubt that the "family values" people are duly spreading it around as much as anyone else. Another sigh.

[KarenSews2]

Thanks, Mixty, for watching out for me! For some reason, I thought you had posted the website. This seems to be a really good cause.

Dave, what do you bet that if this were a "men's issue," it would be OK for the wackos???