I’m going pink for October is a movement around World Wide Web that want to bring attention to Breast Cancer Awareness Month, get people talking about breast cancer, and raise money for research.
You can find out more about Pink for October; you can make a difference now and you can support this movement by changing your blog’s design in something pink, or adding badges, banners or buttons to your blogs.
Because it’s better late then never, I’ve added today a little banner on my sidebar, to support the Breast Cancer Awareness Month – October.
Blogging For Boobs is an event that is hinged around the need to make people aware that they should regularly self-examine breasts for lumps or growths. Whilst men are susceptible to developing cancer of the breasts and should also self-examine, the much larger percentage of those afflicted with the cancer are women. Globally, approximately 1.5 million women are diagnosed with breast cancer each year.
This campaign will be held on Sunday, the 28th of October, 2007 – wherever you are in the world.
What can you do for this event?
While breast cancer awareness is the topic that this event is lending its support to, the topic does not necessarily have to be about breast cancer. Blogging in support of breast cancer awareness, no matter what the subject, will help to create a much needed awareness network in order to promote the cause.
Other ways for supporting this event is by adding banners, badges or buttons to your blogs, telling your friends about it, or general advertising by word-of-mouth.
If you wish to participate in this event, you can send all of your links and relevant information to boobs @ webforhumanity.org, so that it can be linked to on the day.
Well, I’m definitely going to blogging for boobs. Are you going to participate too?
October 25th, 2007
I receive the other day an email from Ken who said that after a few years from gastric bypass surgery, his Mom is experiencing some serious nerve pain in her legs and feet. She made a gastric bypass surgery which caused her Neuropathy and she’s unable to walk. He wrote an article about his Mom’s post gastric bypass neuropathy and he asks for a little help to get the attention of Doctor Russel L. Chin who might be able to help her. Dr. Chin wrote in 2005 a report called Neuropathy and the Gastrointestinal System. I quote from this report:
Neuropathy related to the gastrointestinal system has most commonly been recognized to result from nutritional deficiencies. These deficiencies could be due to malnutrition (e.g. alcoholism) or a reduced absorptive surface as a result of physical alteration (e.g. surgical resection/bypass) or intestinal wall infiltration (e.g. Crohn’s disease).
Gastric surgery for weight loss, malignancy, or ulcers is an obvious potential cause for malabsorption or limited absorption resulting in nutritional deficiency-related neuropathies. For patients with neuropathy following gastric surgery who lack clear evidence of malnutrition, the disease mechanism has yet to be determined.
There are many complications following the gastric bypass surgery. And some of them are neurological complications:
Neurologic complications following BS are reported to occur in 0.08-16% of patients according to a review of 18 surgical series reported between 1976-2004. A 4% neurological complication rate was reported in a single prospective study. In a review of 96 patients (50 case reports), the most common presentations were peripheral neuropathy in 60 (62%) and encephalopathy in 30 (31%). Of the 60 patients with PN, 40 (67%) had a polyneuropathy and 18 (30%) had mononeuropathies, which included 17 with meralgia paresthetica and one with foot drop (Koffman et al, 2005).
I found also an article wrote by O. Maryniak, Severe peripheral neuropathy following gastric bypass surgery for morbid obesity. The full report is available online but you need to subscribe to this periodical. I quote this article’s abstract:
Severe weakness in the limbs developed in a young woman 3 1/2 months after successful gastric bypass surgery for morbid obesity. Electromyography confirmed the clinical impression of generalized axonal polyneuropathy. Vitamin B replacement therapy was started. The gastric bypass was not reversed, and the patient continued to lose weight while undergoing rehabilitation. After 10 months she had almost fully recovered. Her total weight loss was 76 kg. Neuropathy is an uncommon but serious complication of semistarvation that should be preventable by routine administration of vitamin B complex.
Well, I don’t know if my article helps Ken very much, but I just try to do this and I hope his Mom will getting better. I’d like to know if Dr. Chin can help Ken’s Mom, and if he does, I ask Ken to write about this, to help other people who may have the same problem.
Much health to your Mom!
October 20th, 2007
