MagnumAG's blog: "Slammin Synapses"

I wrote this a few years ago... the feeling is still there... even moreso now.
This is a story that had to be told but hard to do so I believe without seeming to be self serving or anything else of the sort but here goes. Back in my youth many years ago, I had a favorite aunt...my dad's sister named (I so miss her) whose health was failing her, She found she had breast cancer. At the time I was too young to fully understand what it all meant but in time, it got the better of her and she would succumb to it. When you're young and you're used to visiting someone very regularly and now you can't any more takes a toll on you because of that is very sad. I will always remember her and think of her. Anyhow as I said before, I was a bit young to fully understand what it all meant and why it happens...so I didn't think about it for the longest time, but it did have a long standing effect that came back to light much later in life. 
Flash forward to about 4-5 years ago. I have a good friend who some time ago found out she was diagnosed with breast cancer...her family has a history of it and some had died because of it. Her health had declined quite a bit and she called me one night very distressed. The content of the call was about what would happen to her kids and also how much longer she had to live. I have never felt so far away from anyone before and this day, I may have very well just been on Pluto. It was a very haunting call that day that brought back what happened to my aunt years ago...but now older to understand it all. Anyhow, she got treatment for it and she beat it thankfully...very very thankfully. 
The ramifications of that one call that one night and the events early in life set in place events that would exist and grow to what it is today. I set out to increase awareness to it through my radio station, my myspace page, and any place else I may have a profile of me. It is my hope that breast cancer is no longer seen as a death sentence and can one day be eliminated as easy as putting a bandaid on a cut and waiting for it to heal. The women (and some men as well) of this world deserve it...our mothers, daughters, nieces, aunts, and friends deserve to have a life free from the ravages of breast cancer. Please keep them in your prayers and your thoughts. Let's all do what it takes to eradicate breast cancer and make it a distant memory. Thank you.