A very pink night to remember featuring; live music from local artists, food, drinks, massages, makeovers, raffles, a silent auction, and tons of giveaways! Also available will be a wealth of material on breast cancer prevention & survivorship—as well as on-site scheduling for FREE mammograms. Pink attire is encouraged!!
WHO:
Know Cancer is dedicated to connecting, educating and empowering all people affected by the many forms of cancer. We are primarily an online social network that provides information, resources and support to people in over 170 different countries. However, Know Cancer also creates real world initiatives & events that raise awareness and impact people at a local level.
Florida Radiology Imaging provides Digital Mammography, offered through Florida Hospital outpatient imaging centers and Florida Radiology Imaging (FRi) centers. Their new technology allows for better detection of breast cancer, with services that include:
- Digital Mammography – Greater detection of cancer
- CAD (computer assisted detection) – Acts as a second opinion to the mammogram by reviewing results and helping radiologists find abnormalities originally overlooked.
I live in eastern North Carolina so all y’all are welcome to stop by anytime and share stories or just talk about things! If you like the beach we’re just 6 miles up the road from the white sands and blue water. If travel is out of the question, please drop by our site and leave us your story. Your story will help the next person who’s about to go through what you already did, and they will thank you for it.
The kind people of Knowcancer.com invited me to tell you my story, and see how we can help each other. So, let’s hear a big round of applause for TheKnowme and the great folks here at Know Cancer who are making this happen.
Back in 2007 I decided to take on T4 Squamous Cell Carcinoma. Actually, it broke my upper palate right side in mid August of 2006, eventually taking out my wisdom tooth. I decided I better do something about it. Through several local appointments I was directed to Carol Shores, MD, PhD. Within the first 30 seconds of meeting Dr. Shores, I decided that she was the one who was going to get rid of Mr. Nasty T4. At the time she was based at UNC in Chapel Hill, North Carolina -which is a good 3-1/2 hour drive from the shore.Let’s just say we put a lot of miles on the car.
“‘Hope to the last!’ said Newman, clapping him on the back. ‘Always hope; that’s a dear boy. Never leave off hoping; it don’t answer. Do you mind me, Nick? It don’t answer. Don’t leave a stone unturned. It’s always something, to know you’ve done the most you could. But, don’t leave off hoping, or it’s of no use doing anything. Hope, hope, to the last!’” –Charles Dickens
One of my favorite quotes from Charles Dickens. There are a plethora of essential elements to life- love, happiness, tolerance, respect, faith- the list goes on, and on. It varies from person to person, as does the degree of importance that each element holds. But hope is the cornerstone that people can rely upon when these other elements seem too far out of reach- when those cloudless blue skies seem more like a childish fairy tale than an actuality. Hope. In my opinion, the most important component in life.
So, I recently chatted it up with my old friend Brian Rechtman, the Founder & CEO of BlueTree Marketing—a company that offers non-profit organizations and schools an online alternative to live silent auctions. Brian and I have known each other since we were just kids and I’ve been privileged to watch his company grow into what it is today! BlueTree has created a platform to effectively run online charity auctions in order to increase starting bids for live silent auctions or even better…replace them all together. So just to clarify, this can save nonprofits from having to set up big bulky events that require time, money, resources and instead allows them to engage donors in an interactive online setting—hmmm, sounds like an auctioneer’s utopia! For all of our readers who work with a cancer organization, make sure to look these guys up and see how they can help you.
Oh, what a night! It’s hard to put an exact order to the top ten nights of my life but the Letters to God (LTG) Orlando premier is most certainly on that list! On March 31st the LTG actors, actresses, producers, partners and supporters walked the red carpet at the Plaza Theatre smack in the heart of downtown Orlando—and what a love-fest it was! Those guys are up there among the kindest most thoughtful group of individuals that we Know Cancer folks get to work with.
It all started with the red carpet walk and a 2 hour mingling session, where we got to catch up with all of our good friends from Possibility Pictures. The crowd then migrated to the 2nd level where the moment of truth awaited us…that’s right, the movie cued and ready! I got to sit next to the great Ann Marie Boskovich, who sings my song “Everything is Beautiful” (which is in the movie)! When the credits rolled and the lights turned back on, you could not see a dry eye for miles—although, it was hard to see anything at that point with tears in our eyes and a mountain of Kleenex in our laps. The film was fantastic!! And what’s more, they included a survivor story about “yours truly” at the end of the movie, which was an incredible surprise!
So, I recently chatted it up with my old friend Brian Rechtman, the Founder & CEO of 
Those guys are up there among the kindest most thoughtful group of individuals that we 
