September is National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. I didn't know that. Did you? I definitely knew that October was the breast cancer month, but I had no clue about this one. It's not as main stream as other cancers yet there are 46 children diagnosed every day. But the funding for childhood cancer is way lower than any other funding out there. Basically, they use adult cancer chemo's and adjust doses for children. Did you know that? Yea me either. Selfishly, I had no reason to know, and I didn't want to read about anybody who was a part of this world either. I couldn't handle it. I couldn't hear how other parents and children were dealing with this disease. Yep, that was me approx 9 months ago. Now that is ALL I do! I shove awareness in people's face. I blog about it, I FB it, I email it, and I talk about it. So this month, I would like to challenge all of our followers to also help people become more aware of childhood cancer. No, you don't have to talk about the horrible statistics about how 7 children a day die from one form or another of cancer. But I believe the first step to making a difference is making people aware. I don't think people are aware of childhood cancer because quite frankly, its a scary world. So back to my challenge. I challenge each of you to do a random act of kindness every day. And you can tell the person to whom its directed, or write a note, or whatever, that you did that in honor of a child fighting cancer since the entire month is dedicated to childhood cancer awareness. And you can use a name of a child, or not. But I bet it's harder than you think to do a random act of kindness EACH and EVERY day for 30 days! I would love for those of you who accept the challenge to keep a list and email it to me at the end of the month.
Today my random act of kindness isn't so random, but it will have to do since I haven't left the house all day. I am having dinner with some friends tonight, so daddy is on dinner duty all alone. Instead of having him fend for himself and the kids, I have a crockpot dinner cooking as I type ;) Hopefully I'll get more creative tomorrow!
In the spirit of awareness here is your childhood cancer fact for the day: Research on the emotional impact of childhood cancer finds that parents and siblings report even greater longterm emotional impacts than the diagnosed child
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