It’s not that I don’t like hearing from my friends’s husbands, but sometimes it signals a red flag. Unfortunately, when Liz’s husband sent out a mass email I was included on, the news… well… sucked. Liz – a mother of three who interviewed Bestselling Author Kelly Corrigan for Breezy Mama back in June and who graciously welcomed my lonely mommy self to San Diego when I moved back during a blind play date – shares her story.
From Liz:
Early detection saves lives. If you didn’t go to the grocery store in October or somehow managed to avoid the marketing genius of the Breast Cancer Awareness campaign, then this might be news to you. So here it is once again: get your annual mammogram and do a self-check.
But I have ovarian cancer. There is no encouraging message like that for this disease. Unlike breast cancer, ovarian cancer is very rarely detected in it’s early stages (under 30% are identified at stage II or earlier – and in most of those cases, it’s discovered by accident during another procedure or scan). There is no reliable screening for ovarian cancer. There is no self-check you can do. And it can’t be found with a pap smear. So what on earth are Read More…
When I first moved back from Los Angeles to San Diego, I was set-up by a mutual friend on a blind play date with Liz Laats. Deciding to meet for the first time at my favorite coffee shop, The Pannikin, Liz easily found me — the eight and a half months pregnant woman with a rambunctious toddler in one hand and a cinnamon roll in the other. She is very gracious (the second time I met her was when she delivered super yummy home made enchiladas after the baby was born) and hilarious (read her self written bio at the end of this post). Recently, she invited me to a reading by her friend, best selling author Kelly Corrigan (also very funny…and famous for it) and I asked Liz if she wanted to interview Kelly – a mother of two young girls who was diagnosed with breast cancer and then found out her father was diagnosed with late stage cancer — for Breezy Mama.
An Interview with Kelly Corrigan
by Liz Laats
I first met Kelly in 1996 through her then aspiring boyfriend, Edward, and I knew early on, she had star power. She could tell a story like no one else. The ultimate hit at a cocktail party. Then I met her family at her wedding. Everything about her made a lot more sense then. When she wrote the book, it was a bit like, “of course!” But I didn’t know it would be so fun to read and so fun to share with friends. But it makes perfect sense to me that it should be a NYT best seller. Her cancer diagnosis scared me to death. I had Read More…
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