[kristen]

Thanks Becky,

I haven't seen the card for the new perfume, but I will write and complain. There are other things this that are really p***ing me off this month and one of them is Melissa Etheridge. Ford and Safeway are sponsoring her as the BC Awareness month spokesperson and she is making some very erroneous errors on TV. On another board she was quoted as saying that Stage I and II are completely curable and III and IV were not. That was on Live with Regis and Kelly and the Komen Foundation is taking money from her song Run for you life. You would think that these sponsors would make sure she had her facts right before going on TV and spewing false and hopeless comments. She makes me crazy and then what she said on Oprah and Dateline, she is the poorest excuse for a spokesperson I have ever seen. Do they not think that they should have someone on the opposite side who could function through chemo and not think they were going to dye? I feel very sorry for the women just diagnosed and think that chemo is going to be hell, she made choices not to take any meds and smoke pot to combat her side effects and obviosly it didn't work so great since she laid in bed for 2 months and couldn't function.
I think she has the right to tell of her experience but on the other hand I don't think she is the most positive or resourseful person out there to be reminding us of BC awareness month. Thanks for letting me vent. But this is also another opportunity for us to let sponsors know that we would like someone with hope and knowledge of this disease and not someone who was there own agenda of selling her CD while trying to promote BC awareness.