Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day is Friday the 13th

AnimalCrackers

I posted this on the Take the Fright out of Breast Cancer thread also but thought it may deserve to stand on it's own.

Who decided that the 13th of any month, no less October (Halloween month), was a good date to associate with Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness?  Especially this year, since it falls on Friday the 13th.  We've had our quota of unlucky for a lifetime already.  We are painfully aware that we have MBC, and we are painfully aware that there is no cure, but just in case any of us were feeling particularly lucky to be alive let's heighten awareness of just how unlucky we are by assigning unlucky number 13 to the day.  Maybe it was a precursor to hijacking Halloween to take the fright out of breast cancer.  After all Halloween is on the 31st.  13/31 or 31/13 - there's a certain symmetry to that.  Coincidence?  

Yes, I woke up on the wrong side of the bed today.  

melmcbee

Well said.

Heidihill

To the point. Glad I missed it.