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Sunday, November 27, 2016

The Gandalf Downstairs: Part Nine

(Part Eight: http://commaopinionated.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-gandalf-downstairs-part-eight.html)


When it comes to breasts, vaginas, uteruses, ovaries and cervixes – they’re magical, complicated things that we shouldn’t be nervous or ashamed about when it comes to looking after them (even take a second right now to try say them out loud – I take comfort in reaffirming that they aren’t bad words).

As fabulous as the efforts of all to commemorate Pink October, it has come and gone. The message of early detection has come up time and time again but, still, people fall through the cracks because silence falls across business houses and private spaces once again. But there are so many services and so much information available all year round. Sure, it takes setting aside time, setting aside resources and setting aside fears – but it’s worth so much more to go before anything starts to hurt than wait for pain to set in.

I know science is way behind and that sometimes it feels like squeezing blood from a stone to get an answer out of a nurse or doctor, depending on their experience and temperament, but give it a go. You are important and you deserve to be well.

Or at least that’s what people tell me to tell you J

(From the Beginning:

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