I have always been a long time fan of Fran Drescher for her role on “The Nanny”.  Over 8 months ago I picked up Fran’s book called Cancer Schmancer ( http://www.cancerschmancer.org ) as I was going through some testing myself for what my doctor thought was ovarian cancer, luckily for me it turned out not to be cancer.

Fran’s book was an eye opener not only for what she went through to get the right diagnosis but the courage she had to fight and find answers and keep going from one doctor to another because she knew in her heart that something was not right with her body.  More women need to do this, not stop with what one doctor says when their intutition tells them otherwise.

I wish my two aunts who had breast cancer and who have passed on, would have done that.  They both knew in their hearts that something was wrong, one of my aunts was just too scared to want to find out so she let it go till it was in stage 4…she lost her battle with breast cancer 4 months later.  My other aunt got the diagnosis but he told her there was nothing she could do, we urged her to go to another doctor to find out if there was anything that could be done.  Her response “I don’t want to hurt my doctor’s feelings and make him think I don’t trust him” THIS was her life…and she was afraid to talk to another doctor because of his feelings…she lost her fight with breast cancer 6 months later.

I wanted to write this to say congratulations to Fran Drescher for her movement on women’s health and especially the movement on Ovarian Cancer.  So many women are afraid to take control of their own health, to ask more questions, to be in charge of their health.  There are women out there who don’t have insurance or who like me do but refuse to pay for the simple test during a routine GYN examine because they it is an elective test!  An elective test!  WHAT the *** sorry for those words but come on an elective test, to see if I may have ovarian cancer, and they don’t want to pay for it???? 

We have the power to change our governtment and how the system is run!  Fran believes in this and started her organization Cancer Schmancer one year ago today, June 21.  I have been a member of her organization and receive email updates on what is going on from her organization.  I felt led to write this blog post to thank Fran.

I have purchased items in the past from her store where all the proceeds go to her organization to help bring into more focus about women’s health and about giving women the hope to do more about their health and stand up for the health care system we deserve!

I want to do more! I want to do more then just purchase a t-shirt, or donate money…so the way I can help right now is by spreading the word about Fran’s organization and what she is trying to accomplish.

So if you are reading this post and feel led to help Fran Drescher and her organization and want to be a voice, please post on your blogs about Cancer Schmancer or go and help with a donation or purchase a T-shirt from the store…. for more information go to http://www.cancerschmancer.org

Take a look at this video from Fran…she has a great point, we women banded together to get the right to vote, and we won it!  It is time to come together again and get our voices heard on Capitol Hill and change the policies that effect women and our health!  This time, as Fran says, we are fighting for our lives…what better challenge is that!  We can make a change in our future, for our daughters, granddaughters, neices, aunts…and so on and so forth….

If you support Fran and her organization please post your blog post below…I would love to hear what you all think of this issue!  I just ordered the Cancer Schmancer T-Shirt once I have received it I will have my hubby take a picture and I will post it on Heal Yourself Talk Radio, I encourage you all to do the same…if all you can do is donate, or purchase something from the http://www.cancerschmancer.org site by all means do so, but I think a lot of us righting about our views, sending letters and helping bring more media attention to this cause the better….let’s make our voice heard…we are women who better to raise our voice high and get our message heard…WE DID IT once before and we won, let’s do it AGAIN!