Breast Cancer Is All Year Round, not Just Once a Month

and that goes for all other health issues as well!

If you're a certain age, it's time to start getting mammograms once a year or so. If you're a woman, especially if you have a family history of breast cancer, make sure you get a mammogram.

The worst thing you can do is ignore your health.

My mom was diagnosed with high blood pressure 30 years or so ago, when she was 40, and prescribed medication. Well, she took her pills for a couple of days, or perhaps weeks, but didn't like the way they made her feel. Rather than talking to her doctor about ajusting the medication...she just stopped taking it.

For 30 years she's been buying books on healing naturally, foods you can eat to keep you healthy, etc...and it didn't do her any good.

Ten years ago, 20 years after she'd been diagnosed, she had congestive heart failure. Now, instead of taking one pill once a day to control her high blood pressure, she takes five or six pills, plus medication - i.e. Metamucil - to counteract the side effects of all the medication she takes.

All of this could have been avoided if she'd just taken her medication 30 years ago, instead of trying to take care of it "naturally."

Not that I'm against natural healing. Or perhaps natural preventatives. But once you've been diagnosed with a disease, take your medication until you've got proof that dealing with it natually works. And if you've tried natural cures for a month or two and it hasn't helped, go back on your medication!

I say this because I've had to deal with my mother and her health issues for over ten years, and it is extremely sad to contrast her today with what she was even fifteen years ago, and all of it unneccesary.