Partnership for Compassionate Support
Another milestone has been reached this year with the first grant award to Life with Cancer, a partnership which will provide outreach to our caring and generous volleyball donors throughout the country. The affect of this initiative will develop over the next several months drawing upon the 20 years experience of the Life with Cancer […]
Side-Out Science Advisor Featured Speaker
How fortunate we are to have one of the top Cancer specialists in the world helping to place our precious donor funds in the most promising areas of Breast Cancer Research. Most recently Dr. Von Hoff, as a featured speaker at the Denver conference of the American Association for Cancer Research, presented the results of […]
Dig Pink Tour Update: Colorado Crossroads Week 2
Week 2 is now over and clubs raised an additional $12,000. This puts us over the $100,000 mark…we are over a quarter of the way there! Here is a picture of the ladies who donated the dollar amount that put us over the mark: This Dig Pink Day was a very special one that […]
Dig Pink Tour Update: Colorado Crossroads Week 1
The 2nd official tour stop at Colorado Crossroads was an amazing site. 81 fund raising teams and about 2/3 of the teams wore pink. The kids, coaches, and parents were awesome and we thank them for their efforts. To day the tour has produced over $92,000 inching little by little to our goal of $400,000. […]
Looking forward…..
With our season right around the corner, I wanted to get my section up and running. We travel all over the country and I would love to do whatever I can do to promote awareness and support of breast cancer and a cure. At all AVP events I have been selling pink and white volleyballs […]
Are You and Your Doctor In Charge of Your Treatment or is Your Health Insurance Company?
My husband and I have been members of Blue Cross/Blue Shield for over 40 years, most of those years healthy. For the most part Government Blue Cross/Care First has paid our medical bills albeit painfully slow. Doctors in some case wait 6-9 months to receive payment. Of late the insurance companies are pushing back in […]
A Trip to the Doctor: Tips on Being Prepared
Since the results of my recent PET scan were not as good as they have been I armed myself before my appointment with my own research into new drug regimens that work with metastatic breast cancer. I also had my own idea of what I wanted to happen. One of the worst parts of dealing […]
The Anguish of Waiting for Results
I had my PET scan this past Saturday and, because I knew there wouldn’t be results until Monday, I enjoyed the weekend. On Monday I sent an email to my doctor’s nurse to remind her to be looking for the results. She did not respond, which is not like her. Then I realized Monday was […]
Sunny, Warm Days With my Sister
I took my first solo trip since starting chemotherapy. I felt very vulnerable but I just had to do it! You know what? I did do it and managed to have a wonderful time with my sister, Marti. A short vacation from Cancer. It renewed and strengthened me, and as I have to do many […]
