Awareness

September is National Eye Cancer Awareness Month. I bet that more than half of the people that will read this did not know that it was. It's somewhat shocking that there is so little said about eye cancer and that there isn't much that we like to say about it. I think that those that have not been affected by eye cancer have never seriously thought about their chances of developing it. I know that I had never known anyone that had eye cancer until I met my cousin Betty. She was only 18 months old when she was diagnosed with retino blastoma or childhood ocular cancer. Even an infant can develop something that could take down the strongest men on earth. How unfair for life to set such a high hurdle for such a young woman, but Betty is an astounding child and an incredibly strong one. With more research maybe we could find a way to regenerate lost tissues due to surgery or finding better ways to treat it that wouldn't be so invasive to the surrounding organs or tissues. If you would like to do something to raise awareness for this terrible disease and wear a yellow ribbon on a shirt a couple of days next September or just visit www.cancer.org/cancer/retinoblastoma/