Metastatic Breast Cancer Day !!!!!!!!!

Some 'filtered' ramblings about metastatic breast cancer awareness day! 

It’s breast cancer awareness month, there’s  an explosion of pink all around us and what a great platform to provoke discussions, encourage women and men to check themselves and a fabulous opportunity to fundraise for research and services ! 

However, I’m ‘curious’ to discover that ‘someone’ seems to have designated just ONE day in all of the 31 days of October, to METASTATIC breast cancer. 

Medical advances mean that women are living much longer with INCURABLE breast cancer and there is a significant gap in services to support  the many women ‘living with’ SECONDARY breast cancer! 

This is the more ‘uncomfortable’ and ‘devastating’, less 'pink side' of breast cancer awareness. Never the less it is a very real aspect of the disease and as such, is as worthy of the full 31 awareness raising days of October, as the preventing it and beating it emphasis. 

I happened upon ‘Pinkoala’ a Facebook page belonging to Linda Garland, an illustrator and a breast cancer ‘survivor’. She is  illustrating and offering reflections and truths every day, all throughout October to raise awareness of all things breast cancer. 

I have found that Linda's illustrations and reflections convey the serious aspects of the disease in such an engaging manner. She injects some much needed humour into affairs and  she offers a fabulous opportunity for those seeking awareness to understand the realities in 'human terms'. 

I invite you to check out her daily posts.