I am not out to lam bast M.E. I think she has every right to tell her story as
she knows it to be true. She choose to take on this role and to me there comes a responsibility with it. She could have come out with her new CD and told her story, but she is doing press to do awareness for BC. Am I wrong in thinking that she should be MORE responsible with what she says? There are a lot of women who are listening to her, is it good or bad?
When someone tells an audience on Regis and Kelly that Stage 3/4 are death sentences and you have BC survivors and there parents and children listening to her what are they to think? When she is on the Oprah show and she tells them how dark it was and how bad chemo was, what is someone who is just dx going to think? As if hearing Cancer for the first time was already frightening?
I am sorry she had it so bad, but she made choices that maybe could have prevented some of her side effects. But it's her journey, her dance with the beast and we all do it differently.
Chemo is no walk in the park, I agree, but I bet most, most women, still got up, took there kids to school, some worked full and part time jobs, drove themselves to chemo and only missed a couple of days of work.
I just think that it should have been more of a balanced representation of who and what BC patients and survivors go through.
Tricia, I wrote to the Koman Foundation, like Becky and VS, I have not heard from them, and I intend to write to the Ford Motor Company. I don't hate her, I just want her to be more responsible.
The YSC board wrote numerous letters to Oprah with no response that I have heard of. I went to Live with Regis and Kelly & there is no place to comment.
Should we give her a break because she just got out of chemo and has chemo brain? I don't know you tell me, I just want the sponsors to know that I have walked for them, I have donated money to them, I have bought there cars, but I won't put up with any misrepresentations, we have been fighting this cause for a long time, everyone knows what a pink ribbon stands for, do we really want someone to misrepresent the facts of the strides that so many women have taken, the lives lost before us, the womens lives who are now being prolonged and are stage 3/4 what is the scare tactic for? Chemo is better tolerated now than before am I wrong? Everybody can do what they want, this is just my opinion.
And for the record I like her song too, maybe she should stick to that it's what she does best.
I went to her website and looked at what her fans had to say about what she said and you can link on to them.
http://ubb.fanasylum.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php? Cat=0&Number=683449&page=4&fpart=1&vc=.
http://www.fordvehicles.com/thecause/melissa/- Ford promo for SBE
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9673481/- dateline interview