Pink Ribbon Review BCAM Giveaway: Day Twenty Nine
October 29, 2008 by Karen Lynch
Filed under Women's Health
In honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, I’m giving away a pink ribbon product every single day during the month of October.
Today, October 29, is day TWENTY NINE of the Pink Ribbon Review Breast Cancer Awareness Month Giveaway and I’m giving away a Young Survival Coalition DVD called “The Beautiful Eight: Learning to Live with Advanced Breast Cancer.”
This educational DVD presents an intimate discussion among eight young women diagnosed with breast cancer. It’s a journey filled with hope, fear, laughter, anxiety and determination to live life to the fullest.
By now you know what to do: follow the Pink Ribbon …read more
Young Survival Coalition Music Video
May 17, 2008 by Karen Lynch
Filed under Women's Health
Here’s a music video, put together by the Philadelphia ‘chapter’ of the Young Survival Coalition. Young survivors … loosely defined as those diagnosed at 40 and under.
You know I love the song “I Run for Life” by Melissa Ethridge and that’s what’s playing in this one, too. Check it out:
I’m a young survivor … I was diagnosed at age 35. How old were you?
Mikimoto Pearls Offer Hope to Young Survivors
May 6, 2008 by Karen Lynch
Filed under Women's Health
A gorgeous flyer showed up in the mail today, a postcard really, with what looks like a strand of pink ribbon pearls on one side and sure enough … it is a strand of “pink ribbon” pearls.
The headline reads: “Everything is possible with Hope.”
The tagline … “Mikimoto: The originator of cultured pearls since 1893.”
On the center of the card is a stunning pearl bracelet with a gold ribbon toggling between two pearls. The picture is gorgeous — I imagine the real thing is divine! (Well, here: see for yourself! Don’t you agree?)
After I’d spent enough time gazing longing at the …read more




