Click The Pink Button, Please!

I’ve finished my exam written task that kept me away from blogging for the past few days, even submitted it electronically. What’s left to prepare for is my oral or verbal examination which is tomorrow. But never mind the exam now, I just have to do this very important exceptional tag from Rozella. It’s about spreading the word about the Breast Cancer Site and by clicking the pink button as many times as we can. If the site gets 8 million clicks in June, their premiere sponsor – Bare Necessities – will donate $10,000 for more free mammograms.

I do have my own little story of a possible cause of breast cancer. One day when I was still in Davao, I discovered a little lump on my right breast while taking a bath. Thought it would be some kind of cyst, I went to see a doctor. But he told me to wait for a couple of days and see if it would get hurt or enlarge or something. It didn’t hurt though, during medical examination. When I told my work colleagues about this, one of them was alarmed and incidentally found a lump on one of her breasts. She went for a medical check-up and she was surprised when the doctor told her she needed a surgery for the lump that turned out to be a cyst. And thanks to me, she wouldn’t had detected it if I hadn’t told about mine. But the little lump on me just disappeared like a bubble in the air.

My story didn’t end up there. A few years after I moved here, I discovered the little lump again, on the same side of my breast. Scared of what it might be, I went to the doctor and got a sched for mammogram. Oh, how I hated it! Mammogram hurts! I got the result immediately but the doctors could not see possible signs of a deadly lump. So they sent me to the next room for ultrasound examination. Then the doctor said it was “vattencystor”, which if I may translate in English, “water cyst”. The doctor then pricked a very thin elastic needle right into where the water cyst was and drained it. Glad to say I haven’t noticed anything more like it after that.

According to medical experts, a breast cyst is often painful but benign. But by ultrasound, the cyst can be examined if it contains solid nodules which can be determined if it’s pre-cancerous or cancerous. Thinking about this, my colleague and me had done it right by consulting a doctor when we noticed those lumps, or else…God only knows…

So Sweetiepie, Farah, Ging, Joy, Maiah, Jessie, Amor, Bojoy and Irel – let’s help save someone’s mother, daughter, sister and friend. Please join me in spreading the word about this cause in the blogging community.

P/S: Don’t forget to click as well. Thank you…