Do you know? Have you heard? Yes, yes, yes we all know that October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and I'm thrilled for their advocacy BECAUSE undoubtedly lives have been saved due to their awesome awareness campaigns that have been going on for a long time. That said, there are other cancers. And that is not to ever take away from wonderful work done by those who go out every day and advocate for breast cancer awareness. Again, lives have been saved. My point of bringing up that there are other cancers out there is because, quite simply, there are other cancers out there and that need more awareness.
As an ovarian cancer survivor (warrior as people have called me... but truthfully it is how I see the beautiful woman who have had this cancer or have it currently or, sadly, have died of it) the other cancer is, well, you guessed it ovarian cancer. But make no mistake about it, way more cancers should be getting more awareness too.
I'm going to speak about the cancer that has impacted my life, personally. So, if you haven't guessed it yet, September is.... Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. In light of that and because my first book is about my journey through that cancer, I thought it fitting to write a little something something about it. And that is about the symptoms. Because that is something I didn't know about and it's something many women (maybe even you reading this) don't know much of anything about.
I can write it down, but a picture is worth a thousand words and sometimes the picture has the words (be it a thousand or less 😉)
Although, unfortunately, many women don't know what to look out for when it comes to this disease, there is a PLETHORA of information with just one quick Google search. That's what is amazing about the internet. We can get so much information on any disease and though we shouldn't use it to diagnose ourselves, it does come in handy. Back when I was diagnosed, in late 2011, we had the internet, but it wasn't like today with smartphones. Even still, it takes sharing things on social media and/or on websites and through blogs to, hopefully, educate as many women as possible. I actually like to include men and that is simply because men have a woman or more in their lives that they'd never want to lose to this cancer so if they know what to look out for, they can pass it on as well 🫶🏽#sharingiscaring
Remember: cancer doesn't discriminate so it doesn't matter where we get our information on this or that as long as it's correct information. I love how the UK organization made this to help with understanding the symptoms. As you can see these could be symptoms from other health issues. This is why it's important to listen to your body and see a doctor if symptoms persist for more than two weeks. Something I did NOT do. Which was something that could have killed me. Don't be like Hope. Don't be a dope. That's my cute way of saying don't follow my example of what I didn't do over 12 years ago. I should have gone to the doctor WAY sooner and by God's grace I'm still her to tell my story in the hope that lives can be saved. I really believe that.
Watch out for another one or two blogs to come out next month relating to Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month as it's a life mission of mine to do as much edutealcating as possible.
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