April 24, 2011 

It is amazing how things happen.  My outings have brought me new friends and new connections.  I always enjoy meeting new people.  This upcoming week, the fruits of my labor have brought me two new adventures.  While in saying it, they may not sound like an adventure but one never knows what may happen from day to day.  Or at least it is not known if one does not pine over it.  Though I may have the ability to see the future I prefer leaving these things a mystery. 

I have recently become acquainted with a zombie priest named Father Seymour. Like some of my other acquaintances I first saw him in my dreams and then only later met him in person.  By an odd coincidence Dreama met him at the first SynerFest.  But it wasn’t until her long lost cousin had business with him that I got to make his official acquaintance.  After chatting with him briefly he invited me to be his altered boy for Zombie Walk 2011.  How very amazing that these events unfolded!  The dream frightened me so but now I see it was not to be feared.  The Zombie Walk is a food drive and the donations from the zombies go to the Mid Ohio Food Bank.  Knowing how hunger affects so many people I am glad to know I can help with this problem.  And then later that evening I get to help film the show Hot Pink 2 Burlesque Spectacular - a Susan G. Komen Fundraiser put on by my favorite burlesque troupe Viva! And the Velvet Hearts.   Of course there is nothing I like more than to see wonderful people doing wonderful things but this show is even more special because of the charity it is supporting.  Having my own mother succumb to cancer already has an impact on me but to know Dreama’s grandmother and aunt also had breast cancer makes it even more significant to The Voyeur.  What people do not realize is that not only does this increase her chances of getting breast cancer but her brothers as well.  This is never promoted as much of a danger for men because it is not as common, but men can get breast cancer too.

According to this website: http://www.cancer.org/cancer/breastcancerinmen/detailedguide/breast-cancer-in-men-key-statistics For men, the lifetime risk of getting breast cancer is about 1 in 1,000 

• About 1,970 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed among men
• About 390 men will die from breast cancer

For women, according to this website: http://www.cancer.org/cancer/breastcancer/detailedguide/breast-cancer-key-statistics

• About 207,090 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed in women.
• About 54,010 new cases of carcinoma in situ (CIS) will be diagnosed (CIS is non-invasive and is the earliest form of breast cancer).
• About 39,840 women will die from breast cancer
• The chance of developing invasive breast cancer at some time in a woman's life is a little less than 1 in 8

Considerably different statistics, but no one should die of cancer.  Let’s hope fundraisers like this help find a cure soon.

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