Cancer Research

Wondering if if you canhelp me?

I am interested in finding out how many people out there have a family member or friend that has been affected by cancer. I would like to know where those people live. I am trying to put facts together about heredity, location and types of cancer.

My dad died of lung cancer and we lived in Bruce County for almost 40 years, although he was born in Scarborough.
His dad died of lung cancer, his mother died of bowel cancer, he lost a brother to lung cancer, a brother to brain cancer, a sister to brain, bowel? cancer and has a brother who is battling skin cancer.

I know of a 14 year old child (girl) that was diagnosed with a brain tumour a year and a half ago and lives in Bruce County outside of Port Elgin and a five year old boy from Port Elgin diagnosed with leukemia. There is also a child (boy) in grade one at a local school diagnosed with leukemia.

I would like to see as many people as possible post their cancer experiences here on my blog so that I or others can see how heredity, location and sex play a part in cancer.

In the Daycare Business???

Looking to share craft and activity ideas, problem solving related to home daycare...I have been in business almost 17 years and I am still learning...have an idea you would like to share...post it here on my blog. This month I am hosting a Carribean Pirate Party...with homemade boats for the kids to "ride" in (just like the cars on Romper Room years ago), a pirate ship cake, walk the plank game, treasure map search, pirate mask making etc.

Thought of the day...or thought for life???

Can you be honest with yourself and others or are you one of those people who tend to talk about others when they aren't around???
Learn the value of a trusted friend, it took me years to realize that superficial friendships just aren't worth it....you shouldn't say something if you don't want the person you were talking about to hear it....cause it always gets back to them.

Slow Dance

SLOW DANCE (Anonymous author - Possiblywritten by a six year old girl with terminal cancer in a New York Hospital)

Have you ever watched kids
On a merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rainSlapping on the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?
You better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.
Do you run through each dayOn the fly?
When you ask "How are you?"
Do you hear the reply?
When the day is done
Do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
Running through your head?
You'd better slow down
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.
Ever told your child,
We'll do it tomorrow?
And in your haste,
Not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die
Cause you never had time
To call and say "Hi"?
You'd better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.
When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift....Thrown away.
Life is not a race.
Do take it slower
Hear the music
Before the song is over.