Calendar Girl Blog: Leveling The Playing Field
The conference market place is clearing out and I've got 100 lbs of calendars left over. Yes, if I haven't mentioned this already (and even if I have) calendars are heavy. It is one of my key challenges...shleeping boxes of the suckers too and fro.
Many women are up in the dining room having a final lunch, exchanging the last shreds of their stories and contact info with new found friends. You can be sure that more tears are pouring and more grief is being felt.
I went to one more workshop this morning, hosted by a Kiwi woman named Sue Mcleod. She attended the last world conference in Victoria, BC and became a breast cancer activist poster girl of sorts simply because she brought up the concept of breast cancer prevention.
Here is one sobering tidbit that she shared with the room of delegates.
We know that radiation exposure causes cancer. No debate there. So get this. In New Zealand, a first world country and member of the Commonwealth, many dentists do not use lead lined blankets to cover their patience when taking x-rays. In fact, most don't use anything at all.
It is commonly understood that radiation scatters. That's why technicians leave the room before zapping you. So there we are in New Zealand, with the expectation that our dentist is equally concerned for our health as we are, trusting the authority of a medically trained professional, only to learn that, for some reason(s), safety standards are not being universally applied around the world.
The playing field is clearly not even. It is no where near even between countries. And, there are huge disparities between urban and rural districts, frozen and melted lands and first, second and third world countries.
I'm only drawing attention to geographic differences and how this impacts the quality of the health care/illness management that you may get. Throw in our different levels of income, and the picture quickly divides again. Add culture into the mix and you get even more distinction. Education levels...might as well spin the bottle one more time.
World conferences point out these glaring differences. World conferences on Breast Cancer prove that brcan is a universal issue. Can World Conferences help to level and improve the playing field?
Calendar Girl has cleared out of Halifax and is now sitting pretty on the south shore of Nova Scotia looking out at Jordan Bay. Calendar Girl hitched a ride with Darcy, a conference participant, survivor and friend of a friend.
Ripple, the orange dog of the household of Christine and Scott is being very attentive. Calendar Girl speaks and understands fluent dog and leans towards a wardrobe of shades of orange so bonding was inevitable. All dogs love a good conversation with their own kind and 'orange' lovers alone qualifies as a kind. In fact, I've dedicated a day in January as Orangeness Day to prove my point.
The weather today is balmy. Calendar Girl did note a collective sigh and body slump of the 4 Not From Here's (NFH) and the 2 Born and Breed Nova Scotian's (BBNS) last night as all sat around the screened in porch with the fire blazing, discussing the weather. Calendar Girl concluded that 'balmy' is rare in Nova Scotia.
Calendar Girl
Many women are up in the dining room having a final lunch, exchanging the last shreds of their stories and contact info with new found friends. You can be sure that more tears are pouring and more grief is being felt.
I went to one more workshop this morning, hosted by a Kiwi woman named Sue Mcleod. She attended the last world conference in Victoria, BC and became a breast cancer activist poster girl of sorts simply because she brought up the concept of breast cancer prevention.
Here is one sobering tidbit that she shared with the room of delegates.
We know that radiation exposure causes cancer. No debate there. So get this. In New Zealand, a first world country and member of the Commonwealth, many dentists do not use lead lined blankets to cover their patience when taking x-rays. In fact, most don't use anything at all.
It is commonly understood that radiation scatters. That's why technicians leave the room before zapping you. So there we are in New Zealand, with the expectation that our dentist is equally concerned for our health as we are, trusting the authority of a medically trained professional, only to learn that, for some reason(s), safety standards are not being universally applied around the world.
The playing field is clearly not even. It is no where near even between countries. And, there are huge disparities between urban and rural districts, frozen and melted lands and first, second and third world countries.
I'm only drawing attention to geographic differences and how this impacts the quality of the health care/illness management that you may get. Throw in our different levels of income, and the picture quickly divides again. Add culture into the mix and you get even more distinction. Education levels...might as well spin the bottle one more time.
World conferences point out these glaring differences. World conferences on Breast Cancer prove that brcan is a universal issue. Can World Conferences help to level and improve the playing field?
Calendar Girl has cleared out of Halifax and is now sitting pretty on the south shore of Nova Scotia looking out at Jordan Bay. Calendar Girl hitched a ride with Darcy, a conference participant, survivor and friend of a friend.
Ripple, the orange dog of the household of Christine and Scott is being very attentive. Calendar Girl speaks and understands fluent dog and leans towards a wardrobe of shades of orange so bonding was inevitable. All dogs love a good conversation with their own kind and 'orange' lovers alone qualifies as a kind. In fact, I've dedicated a day in January as Orangeness Day to prove my point.
The weather today is balmy. Calendar Girl did note a collective sigh and body slump of the 4 Not From Here's (NFH) and the 2 Born and Breed Nova Scotian's (BBNS) last night as all sat around the screened in porch with the fire blazing, discussing the weather. Calendar Girl concluded that 'balmy' is rare in Nova Scotia.
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