Let There Be No Light
Did you turn off your lights for Earth Hour? I was quite agog at hearing about this particular event. I wanted to see how our place would look like when the households’ lights were turned off. Here’s what I saw hours before EH and an hour of EH.
Earth Hour
March 28, 2009
8:30 – 9:30 PM
Askim, Sweden
Hours before Earth Hour
The actual Earth Hour
It wasn’t totally dark but at least there were people who really cared even for just an hour. Did the earth win in your place?
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…
ICE Campaign
I’m sure not many of us know about this ICE Campaign that’s been circulating around blogosphere. This campaign has actually started a few years back and might have saved lives already. As it’s been passed by Sam, the concept is just awakening I find no reason not to share it.
The concept of “ICE” (In Case of Emergency) is catching on quickly. It is a method of contact during emergency situations. As cell phones are carried by the majority of the population, all you need to do is store the number of a contact person or persons who should be contacted during emergency under the name “ICE” ( In Case Of Emergency).
The idea was thought up by a paramedic who found that when he went to the scenes of accidents, there were always mobile phones with patients, but they didn’t know which number to call. He therefore thought that it would be a good idea if there was a nationally recognized name for this purpose. In an emergency situation, Emergency Service personnel and hospital Staff would be able to quickly contact the right person by simply dialing the number you have stored as “ICE.”
For more than one contact name simply enter ICE1, ICE2 and ICE3 etc. A great idea that will make a difference!
Let’s spread the concept of ICE by storing an ICE number in our mobile phones today!!!
It’s never too late to forward this and save lives ICE…
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