15% Off Coupon Code for Lauren Klein Jewelry & Breast Cancer Research

Bling! Bling!

That's what my jewelry does.  I love jewelry.  It is what makes me girly.

Right now, Lauren Klein Jewelry is offering 15% off your entire order if you "like" the Lauren Klein Facebook page.  (Did you do it yet - - did you click and like it?  Go do it!)

In support of the 25th Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Lauren Klein Jewelry will donate 10% of all sales during the month of October to breast cancer research (yeah for the girls, right?).  Hm, coupon code plus breast cancer research donation - great deal all around!

Because I just turned 40 yesterday (without tears by the way), I have to make my first mammogram appointment (I imagine THAT will bring me to tears), but hey, we have to do what we have to do.  How bad could it be after giving birth four times.  I'll get that done and then celebrate with something sparkly!

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Cancer Sucks!

A high school friend passed away yesterday from cancer. She never had a bad word to say about anybody. She was one of those people who was always sweet, always helpful. We sat together in our business classes and became friends. After graduation we lost touch, which so often happens, and then facebook put us back in touch again recently. She ended up marrying another friend from high school. I feel really bad for him right now.

I'm sure this is not how it really is but from an emotional standpoint, is seems like the good people are taken too early. People with pure hearts leave too soon.

Very sad.

Cancer sucks!

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Cancer Survival Rates

I was reading in a magazine yesterday how the cancer survival rates are getting better and better.  It talked about not exactly beating the cancer but managing it.  It talked about thyroid cancer, breast cancer and one other that I can't remember now.  I know it wasn't the mesothelioma survival rate. I think it was some type of Hodgkin's (or non-Hodgkins).  That's the one my uncle has had for many years.  They didn't expect him to live as long as he has but he is.  He's "managing" it with diet, etc.

All that reading yesterday gave me nightmares about cancer last night.  I have thyroid disease with multiple nodules and any one of those nodules could now be, or could turn into, a cancer.  A biopsy gets one teeny part of a nodule and it is likely it wouldn't be the cancerous part out of all those millions of cells so I really have no idea.  It's a little black cloud that comes out to play whenever I think about it too long.

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Mesothelioma Help

If you or a loved one is dealing with malignant Mesothelioma, there are resources online. I don't know anybody that is dealing with it actually...you don't hear about it too often, other than to see commercials on television but there are 2,000-3,000 cases reported every year. It affects men more than women. Experts predict that we will continue to see a diagnosis for Mesothelioma over the next 15 - 20 years due to exposure to Asbestos.

The siding on our old house used to be asbestos and it was chalky down the side of the house until we painted over it, hopefully sealing it up. I refused to plant any type of garden there though because I didn't know what washed into the soil every time it rained from the siding.

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