Annoying and embarrassing yes, BUT it's got us talking... and a host of women across the world are reading this.
Which gives me the opportunity to repeat something I said on here before the weekend... READ ON, LADIES, PLEASE. It's important, maybe the most important thing you will ever read.
I was 37. No history of breast cancer in the family, a size 8, seven and a half stone vegetarian. I had none of the age/weight/family/diet related chances of getting breast cancer. So, although I knew it CAN hit women like me, did I check my breasts? Did I hell! Too busy being a mum, too busy having fun, too busy thinking, "It won't, it can't happen to me!"
But it did. Thirty seven years old, a lone mum to a 5 and 6 year old and BY CHANCE, just having a bath and washing normally as I did, I found a lump.
Cancer. A tiny word that nigh on blew my world apart. Had I not had small boobs and found it so early - something my docs said was a miracle given I wasn't actively checking for it - could have left my little girls in a children's home.
Most women in that position wouldn't have been so lucky and wouldn't have found the lump without actively checking... so most would be dead by now.
So do something for me, for you, for your DHs/DPs, your Mums and Dads, your siblings and your children... and check your breasts before you go to bd tonight and every month thereafter. See your GP surgery nurse and ask her how to do it properly and tell all your friends and family to do it too, men included.... and get THEM to tell THEIR DWs/DPs/mums/sisters and friends to do so.
Yep, that FB campaign is a PITA.... but we're talking about it, other women are reading this... so pass the message on.
Don't be a statistic on the death sheets for the sake of 5 minutes checking, for the sake of thinking it can't happen to you.