Beeswax and Helping

If you want to be a good friend during a medical crisis, ask how you can help. Don't say, 'how can I help?' Ask 'Do you need anything from the grocery store? I'm going later today.' Mow their lawn. Pick up their kids from school. All those things. Anything you can do.

However, its 'none of your beeswax' on what exactly their health issues are so:

1. Do not interrogate them daily on what's the latest from their doctor 
2. Do not tell the world every little detail you interrogated out of them. Its not your story to tell.
3. Do not tell them your cousin's hairdresser's uncle's neighbor's son had the same thing and their treatment was what your friend has and they died in the end. Or conversely, their treatment was different and must be better because they lived another two years.

So remember, do not interrogate, its not your beeswax to share, and any other treatment anyone else had is irrelevant.

But go mow their lawn.....

Holy moley!

Moles can predict breast cancer risk? So can living under a rock apparently (because of the radon). But seriously it turns out that moles can predict breast cancer risk because they have the same hormonal sensitivities (is that the right word? I don't know but it makes sense to me) as breast cancer. And that is also true for stomach cancer.

The study found that women with more moles had higher levels of estrogen in their blood than women with fewer. And since estrogen fuels many breast cancers, there is a higher risk present. Sounds logical? Okay sure.

So now we can add having moles to the risks of developing breast cancer. We will just have to add this to the list of things we cannot do anything about  such as genetics, having children, age, and family history. There is nothing we can do but be more at risk. How helpful. Not really.

But I will still get annual skin checks for skin cancer.