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You are here: Home / Uncategorized / Making an Impact. Can blogging save lives?

Making an Impact. Can blogging save lives?

June 21, 2011 by Jen

Remember when I wrote this: If only we had known.? It was about how I wished we had known more about skin cancer. How we could have, maybe, saved my mom. And how I wished we had checked into things sooner. It was about a lot of other “what ifs”. 

I have always loved the sun. But I have learned to love sunscreen. My kids have never had a sunburn (granted, they are brown-ish by nature but I am now religious about sunscreen!) and they fear sunburns in the same way they fear smoking. The sun can kill. They have seen it happen. My mom died of melanoma.

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My daughter with my mom less than 1 year before she died of melanoma – skin cancer.
So, after this post I got a lot of comments and emails. Many swore to stop basking in the sun. Many swore to look into their suspicious moles. I can’t say I know exactly what happened to the many but I am absolutely thrilled that at least one of them came back to tell me I made an impact. This is her comment:

Jen

My sincere thanks — again. I just got back from the doctor. The suspicious mole is cancer. Basal cell carcinoma.
Although I had the mole removed a couple of weeks ago, I’ll be going to a dermatologist (hopefully ASAP) to get more tissue in that area (my shoulder) removed.
And also I will be getting the rest of my fair, freckled, sun damaged skin checked with follow-up.

So thanks. If I hadn’t read your stories, I would not have gone and I’m really, really glad I did.

Sometimes people tease me and make fun of blogging. They poo-poo it as shallow and the writers as untrained and the art as low-brow. Well, “whatever” I say. Look at what I did. Look at the difference I made. Look at what blogs can do!
What about you? Have you ever been moved or taken action because of a blog post?

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: blogging, cancer, health, melanoma, my Mom, parenting, skin cancer, sunscreen

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