As some of you have read on my blog, September is Ovarian Cancer awareness month. In honor of my mom-in-law, who passed away from this awful killer, I've been doing a few things to think of her this month. One of the things that I discovered about a month ago was this website called tealtoes.org.
The whole concept of tealtoes.org is to paint your toe nails teal to support ovarian cancer awareness. Instead of wearing a ribbon... paint your toes!
I thought the idea sounded like lots of fun, so our family took a walk to our local Rite Aid to buy the nail polish. No, I didn't have any teal colored nail polish!
The girls were so excited to get a new polish and during the walk we talked all about Memere (Tom's mom) and how she got really sick with cancer. It gave us a chance to chat about her and the things she loved to do. (Bailee also now thinks that teal was Memere's favorite color!) ;0)
Here are the girls in the stroller on our way to the store!
In the store we searched for the right color we wanted (and I was comparing prices! I wasn't going to pay $8 for a little nail polish!)
We found the exact color we wanted and paid for it (I paid $2 not $8)!
I painted the girl's toes teal and mine are teal as well. It was lots of fun to talk about Memere some more while we had this fun girlie time together.
It has been neat to have the girls talk about Memere more, but more importantly it has lead to some neat conversations with ladies about why their toes are teal! The girls usually want to show off their "pretty toes" but then I continue with the reasons why and we chat about the symptoms of ovarian cancer that are hard to detect sometimes!
The following was on the tealtoes.org website... it's so important that every woman knows!
Why raise awareness?
Too many women with ovarian cancer do not get diagnosed until their cancer has spread. Their survival rate is 45%.
The survival rate improves greatly - to 93 percent - if the cancer is diagnosed at an early stage before it has spread. Only 19 percent of ovarian cancer cases are diagnosed at this local stage.
Approximately 75 percent of ovarian cancer cases are diagnosed at an advanced stage after the cancer has spread beyond the ovary.
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