Today I attended the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk at Jones Beach…This has always for me been a VERY beautiful and PERSONAL function. A sort of celebration of life. On March 26, 2005 my beloved sister Karen Pia Jones died of Metastasized Breast Cancer at the young age of 49. Her journey started about two years before. What do you do when your WHOLE family gets this kind of news. The point of this blog, is that today I fully realized that there is no real compassion or empathy for the CO-SURVIVORS. During the walk this year every time the workers spoke to you the first thing the would ask is “ARE YOU A SURVIVOR” one booth even denying us a sweatshirt because we were not CANCER survivors and patients of the doctors that were advertising. So I ask is our grief not important enough not to have a title. Was our journey not filled with enough emotion and pain to warrant an acknowledgment.

My suggestion to Making Strides is that next year have a table for co-survivors. Have a rose for co-survivors.  And perhaps include a sensitivity training. Because when someone asks me am I a survivor and I say no PLEASE don’t just dismiss me like nothing happened to me. When I attend these walks I do it because I believe that there are like-minded people who understand that after all this time I still cry for the loss of my sister as well as celebrate her life. So I end this by saying CO-SURVIVORS ARE SURVIVORS TOO!!!!!  until tomorrow bye

When did we become so bored with our own lives that other peoples lives became our interest. The image that has become Reality TV is disgusting people fighting and cursing UGH!!!!!! Love and Hip Hop..Real Housewives Of Everything the shows should be banned from TV…..Just today  Joe and Theresa Giudice although I do feel for their children they did commit a crime STEALING MORTGAGES..TAX FRAUD..LYING…ETC…..if you or I had committed these crimes we would be under the jail..And there are honest hard working people that apply for mortgages and don’t get them, So since when is the message the only way to get MONEY in this country is to steal it.

I say lets cancel Reality TV and get back to something close to real TV like SCANDAL…DATELINE heck SHARKTANK they help and promote and give some of the best FREE business information ever.  So I challenge EVERYONE THAT IS HOOKED ON REALITY TV LETS STOP WATCHING IF THERE IS NO AUDIENCE THERE IS NO SHOW!!!!!  Lets save ourselves….. Until tomorrow bye!!!