Why I spent 2 months planning a wedding & 2 years planning a honeymoon
By Jay P - June 05, 2017
Its been a while. This blog was something I started a couple years ago and I just fell off! To my surprise over the past couple years many people have been able to get insight from the words that I had expressed on this blog and apparently it even helped some people. Who knew?! Over the past couple years I have spent all...
Photo credit: Lel4nd / Foter.com / CC BY This post has probably been a long time coming; I have just been avoiding it because it forces me to confront a reality that I don’t like to relive. The fact that the one person who believed in me even when I did not believe in myself, is not here to share in these major milestones of my life. The...
Have you ever loved somebody so much and so hard that it hurts?! Nah me neither. But I will tell you this, I have loved with all of my heart and my soul and I know that feeling of wonder and amazement when you love with every fibre of your being and having it returned maximises your output ten fold. That's what I...
Why it’s important to have a support team during cancer treatment
By Jay P - September 22, 2013
Photo credit: phalinn / Foter / CC BY Women undergoing breast cancer treatment face incredible social and psychological stress regarding cancer treatment. A study published in the journal CANCER by the American Cancer Society indicates why it is important for women to have a support team while undergoing cancer treatment. This study suggests that women, particularly African Americans are more likely to experience functional disability or the need for...
It’s a pretty tall order to say that you want to determine the risk of developing breast/ovarian cancer in an entire population, much less a third world population. But that’s exactly what one country is doing, the Bahamas. A pilot study in 2010 by a group of physicians revealed that women in the Bahamas have the highest recorded risk of developing hereditary breast...
