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July 26, 2005
PSA
I know I've nagged all of y'all about this before, but it's important.
Virtually all deaths from cervical cancer are preventable, yet the disease will kill almost 4,000 women in this country this year. Frustrated scientists know who most of them will be: black women in the South, Hispanics along the Texas-Mexico border, white women in Appalachia and the rural Northeast, and Vietnamese immigrants.
Get a yearly Pap test. It might save your life, or the life of your significant other. It saved mine. And my nagging has now saved the life of someone very dear to me (who shall remain nameless). But it was someone who hadn't been checked in a couple of years, even though I harped at her constantly. Like me, she didn't fit any of the common risk profiles for cervical cancer. So she kept putting it off.
Her outpatient surgery is scheduled for early next month. Prognosis: a full recovery is expected. If she'd waited another year, prolly not so good.
So just schedule the damn thing & get it over with.
Today.
Posted by Rita at July 26, 2005 03:59 AM