Joan Lunden's Blog - "I have breast cancer"

Pray for Joan and her family, and for all families and women who are in the fight against breast cancer.

her blog

The Licorice Project

The Licorice Project

If you have breast cancer, or know someone who does -- please this check out this website !! It has lots of useful information and was started by women with breast cancer, including my own sister.

The Licorice Project

Lung Cancer - Creating Awareness, Fighting for a Cure

These are my Lung Cancer washcloths. The washcloth is made from Sugar and Cream Yarn. Each washcloth has the name of the cancer it represents. On the back of the card there is a verse that says, “We wait in hope for the Lord; he is our help and our shield “Psalms 33:20.


Color: white

Size: 7in. x 7in.

This is a great item for any household or a gift for someone special that is or was fighting cancer. All the money from these washcloths goes to The American Cancer Society to help found more research so one day we will no longer have cancer.

AllyBee7385 on Etsy - please visit for more !!

Thank you for caring and fighting to find a cure!!

THE TOP CANCER KILLER AMONG WOMEN STILL GETS NO RESPECT

Smokers used to account for 95 percent of all lung cancer cases. Today, up to 15 percent of lung cancer patients, like Dana Reeve, are nonsmokers—and of those, about 60 percent are women. "Breast cancer kills about 35,000 women each year; lung cancer kills about 70,000 women," says Dr. Jennifer Garst, a lung cancer specialist at Duke University Medical Center. Researchers do not know the exact reasons for the uptick, which may be linked to genetics, the hormone estrogen, the environment (radon gas, found in some homes, is a suspected culprit) and secondhand smoke. The bottom line? "We don't know why," says Dr. Harvey Pass, division chief of thoracic surgery at the NYU School of Medicine. What is known is that some nonsmokers, who suffer from a type of lung cancer called adenocarcinoma, are finding relief in new targeted drugs like Avastin and Tarceva. But high costs and serious side effects can be prohibitive. The hope is that Dana Reeve's death will draw attention and dollars—and help to destigmatize this misunderstood disease. As of 2005, the National Cancer Institute spent $23,000 per breast cancer death on research, but only $1,800 per lung cancer death. "The struggle," says Laurie Fenton of the Lung Cancer Alliance, "is to present lung cancer as a disease, not just as a smoking addiction."

For more information, go to www.lungusa.org

American Girl Dolls without Hair

Not something every girl with cancer would want - a reminder of lost hair from chemo, but it's an option with American Girl dolls and you can later replace the doll head to one with hair.

American Girl site on bald doll

Pink ribbon dress - I've made purchases from this shop - beautiful sewing!

Naomi - Check the Girls Earrings Giveaway

In honor of my sister, here are lovely pearl pink vintage lucite beads, dangling from shell leverback gold-plated earwires.

PLEASE use these as a reminder to check the girls monthy - that is how she found her breast cancer and caught it early !!

$5 from each purchase of these earrings from my etsy shop will go to fight cancer !!

Also, see my sister's fundraiser for St. Jude's at www.zitabkids.com

Two sisters, 8 and 10 years old are raising $100,000 each for St. Jude, after deciding to raise the funds, their own brother is now at St. Jude's with cancer.

To give to St. Jude thru Madison: http://heroes.stjude.org/madisondismuke

To give to St. Jude thru Lindsey: http://heroes.stjude.org/lindseydismuke

Madison is over $100,000, so let's get Lindsey there too!

* Become a follower and leave a comment to enter our drawing for our self exam reminder earrings! We will have a random drawing at the end of October with one winner.

Zita B Ltd - Monthly Charity

Please check out my sister's shop! While her website is being updated, she had add her charity of the month items for Team Ingram - fund's will go to St. Jude. Please visit her site to read about Team Ingram or go to there blog - Ingram's blog. For anyone interested in ending childhood cancer - please check it out. Both my sister and I make products and donate proceeds to cancer research!

Last Wish of dying girl...

Last wish of MN girl fighting leukemia

There's a social media effort to grant the dying wish of a young girl with leukemia. Jane Fiemeyer is a big fan of a Nickelodeon band from Minnesota, Big Time Rush, and her wish is to see them. They are not scheduled for Minnesota, but social media is working to get them here.

Jane is going into hospice - she has days, weeks or months to live.

http://www.kare11.com/video/1823174886001/1/Last-wish-of-MN-girl-fighting-leukemia

MINNEAPOLIS - There's a social media effort to grant the dying wish of a young girl with leukemia. Jane Fiemeyer is a big fan of a Nickelodeon band from Minnesota, Big Time Rush, and her wish is to see them. The eight-year-old will leave the hospital and enter hospice care on Wednesday, September 5th.


Doctors say Jane has anywhere from days to week...maybe months...to live. That time frame makes it tough for Make a Wish to fulfill her dream of meeting the boy band. However, Jane is getting help on social media. It's a big time wish and Jane has a lot of people behind her.

Her mother spread the wish on facebook, which spread to Twitter where thousands of people are now tweeting the #BTRmeetJane.

Jane was diagnosed with leukemia back in August of 2011 and has been in and out of hospitals since.

On Wednesday, she's headed home to Wadena to begin hospice care.

Big Time Rush is on tour right now and the band does have upcoming stops in Michigan and Illinois. Jane's family would be thrilled if they somehow fit in an extra stop to Minnesota.

"As a mom you do whatever you can to make your children's wishes come true. I think any parent, that's just what we do and I put it out to people who love her and do whatever I can to make her wishes come true. I'm trying to fit a lifetime of wishes in a shorter time frame and this is one that she's expressed to me that's important, " said Jil Fiemeyer, Jane's mother.

In the meantime, Jane's leaving her own legacy by selling wallets and bags made out of duct tape. So far she's raised $850 and all of the money goes to children's cancer research.

Beading for Birthdays

Necklaces added to our shop for $22.00 with $15.00 going to fight childhood cancer!!  We donate to MiracleKids Triathlon (Miracles for Mitch Foundation) and St. Baldricks Foundation.