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Influencing change - Risk reducing medication journal article
You may remember in the Seat at The Table 2011 Year in Review, Amanda mentioned the work that Heather Drum and Gerda Evans did in getting health professionals to use the term risk reducing medication, when talking about medication that can reduce your risk of breast cancer developing. As a result of this work, Gerda was…
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Inaugural Meeting
Welcome to our new group in Liverpool NSW. I am looking forward to our first meeting on Tuesday 31st January. I have no idea what will happen, though am excited to be able to offer this time for a very special group of women. I believe we are all survivors from the very first moment of diagnosis. It is how we survive that…
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get together
Hello everyone Everyone is invited to a get together on Friday the 6th of January for lunch, 12 M.D. at the Botanic Hotel opposite Botanic Gardens on North Terrace. If you are interested please RSVP by Tuesday the 3rd for booking purposes. Join Celeste, Jenny, Helen and myself for lunch and a friendly chat. Hope to see you…
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Merry Christmas One & All
Greetings everyone. I would like to say thank you to all those wonderful women who have shared my journey with me - reading, and or posting helpful supporting replies. You are all very brave wonderful women and I take my hat off to you all. This has been a year of turmoil and anguish of being in shock, denial, and some…
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Would Not Miss Chrissie Lunch
Hi Ladies, Long time no see, I have been busy these last few weeks at work, leading up to Chrissie can get a bit hectic in a Shopping Centre as you know. Cleaning up the mess can be exhausting as well! I have been back at work awhile now, but when I read that you were having Christmas lunch on Monday the 19th I…
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Seasons greetings to you all
Hi all, For those of you who celebrate, Christmas is almost upon us, so I just wanted to take a minute and wish you all a peaceful and restful few weeks. Also to thank you all for the generous and kind way in which you've supported each other in this online network through 2011. We have more than 5,200 members now and your…
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IMPORTANT: Site update completed
Hi all, Welcome back to the site! I hope no-one had any serious withdrawal effects. :) Just to let you know that the upgrade went as planned -- many thanks to our external website and systems providers, and the BCNA team for all their hard work. You should find everything working the same as it always has, but if you…
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IMPORTANT: Network outage confirmed
Hi all, Just to let you know that we will be going ahead with the upgrade to our IT system tomorrow TUESDAY MORNING (20 December), so the site will be unavailable between 7.30am and midday. At this time you will not be able to access the site or the network, or make blog posts or comments. If you try to load the site, you…
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IMPORTANT: Planned site outage
Hi all, Just to let you know that there is a major upgrade planned for our IT administration and database system next week, which will affect availability of the website and the online network. We're trying to keep the down-time as short as possible, but at the moment, it looks like all of the website and online network…
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Potential Media Story on the Online Network
Hi Everyone, As a lot of you may already know - I am the Media Officer at BCNA. Myself and Media Manager Julie Reilly are working on a potential TV media story on BCNA's Online Network and the value and support it provides to its' users. If you: * have made a connection through BCNA's Online Network with someone that you…
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MERRY CHRISTMAS
Well almost another year gone, our last luncheon will be at the deck in mansfield at 12pm and a $5-00 kris kringle. as many of you know Marilyn and Leslee are handing over the reins of can care to Mary Covill and myself in 2012 and we hope every one will continue to support the group. we are restructuring the group back to…
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LGFB workshop for Victorian members
Hi all, EDIT: Reminder that the cutoff date for registrations for this workshop is tomorrow (Dec 14) for anyone interested. Just received this note from Alma at Cancer Council Vic: "Cancer Council Victoria is hosting the last LGFB workshop for this year on Monday 19 Dec at 10.00am-12.30pm. We have plenty of room and would…
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How do I comment/post from iPad2?
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SITE UPDATE: Bug fixes
Hi all, The site update is all done, so we should be back to business as usual. Thanks very much to those of you who use iPads / iPhones to access the site for your patience while we had the blog-posting bug fixed. Give it a whirl now and you should have no trouble ...and then let us know so we can celebrate with you! :)…
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This is My Mums Tribute Page
http://www.onlinetributes.com.au/Justine_Wakelin/