On another note, yesterday was just great. I got to share the day with two different Amish groups and help one lady to pursue mammogram and made appointments and necessary arrangements as well as working with others in answering questions regarding breast health and cancer issues and do some teaching. We did alot of interaction and I presented a program. To top it all off, the donuts I brought were devoured and the highlight at the end of it all is that I was taken for a buggy ride. This was not just any buggy ride, we went down the rode and when our horse spotted another horse across the rode, he started heading for it but then given the yank to get back on the road it did a 90 degree angle the opposite way and went across a ditch and up into a field. We held on and just kept going until the horse calmed down but it took us the whole field to finally be able to get the horse across the ditch and to the road again. The "English" was not afraid but could see the headlines of how this lady in pink, riding in an Amish buggy was thrown from the buggy ( but I really was not thrown just jostled a bit) and the outcome, well honestly, we just laughed but it was yet another adventure. Made it a great day! Hope the owner of the field will be forgiving or else we are in even bigger trouble! S
This is breast cancer awareness month and so we are having little contests in the building to promote awareness and just a little fun factor. A co-worker bought me a pink plastic pumpkin and it is filled with (of course) chocolate. We also had the unknown pink contest and the person that had the most pink on that day one a prize and then this week is a total week of pink and a point given per article of pink ( of course there is some discretion in what I will observe and count but one of our staff has worn 16, 17 items in a day. We are having fun and the week will culminate with a prize. More to come in the next week and final week will be a pink luncheon that we all participate in and bring pink food items for our lunches to share. So when you see us out in Pink, know that we are promoting breast cancer awareness here and wherever we go.
On another note, yesterday was just great. I got to share the day with two different Amish groups and help one lady to pursue mammogram and made appointments and necessary arrangements as well as working with others in answering questions regarding breast health and cancer issues and do some teaching. We did alot of interaction and I presented a program. To top it all off, the donuts I brought were devoured and the highlight at the end of it all is that I was taken for a buggy ride. This was not just any buggy ride, we went down the rode and when our horse spotted another horse across the rode, he started heading for it but then given the yank to get back on the road it did a 90 degree angle the opposite way and went across a ditch and up into a field. We held on and just kept going until the horse calmed down but it took us the whole field to finally be able to get the horse across the ditch and to the road again. The "English" was not afraid but could see the headlines of how this lady in pink, riding in an Amish buggy was thrown from the buggy ( but I really was not thrown just jostled a bit) and the outcome, well honestly, we just laughed but it was yet another adventure. Made it a great day! Hope the owner of the field will be forgiving or else we are in even bigger trouble! S
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AuthorMy name is Sue Kilburn and I am a clinical nurse breast cancer educator at the Yolanda G. Barco Oncology Institute in Meadville, Pennsylvania. Archives
March 2015
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