In Cynthia's memory

Yesterday when I went to have chemo took two boxes of donut holes from a Severna Park shop which makes them fresh nightly to the nurses at the Weinberg Outpatient Cancer Clinic. Labeled them in memory of Cynthia Foster whom I met in mid-September of 2008. We arrived on Thursdays at 9 a.m. so often talked in the lobby waiting to be called into an individual "cubby." Also made a cash donation in her name to the OPC where we developed our friendship. Her daughter asked me to notify another patient, Bonnie, of her mom's death. But when I asked Terri to tell Bonnie, Terri told me Bonnie had died more than a month ago. Bonnie, whom I met in January 08, had survived cervical cancer in 1983 and had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer 3C in 2004. Cynthia was also OVC 3C discovered in a 2005 CT scan of her gall bladder.

If you are a woman, have doctors take out ovaries when they do a hysterectomy. If you still have all these things, get a transvaginal sonogram and/or a CA125 blood test (normal range is 0-35) to try to locate ovarian cancer EARLY.