I’ve been browsing on some other young adult cancer survivors’ blogs and following some of the links in their side bars. You never know what you’ll find if you take a moment to sidebar-browse. Anyway, here are a few things I like in particular:

This site has a bunch of awesome and inspiring t-shirts that I would love to wear to my CAKE session and visits with the ol’ doc! I really like the following:
* HUG ME! I’m not contagious! It’s just cancer!
* TO DO LIST: __Beat Cancer __Take Over World.
* “Hello. My name is CHEMO BRAIN”
* This is what a cancer survivor looks like.
* INSTANT SURVIVOR! Just add chemo.

Jackie Farry has some great stocking caps that simply state the obvious: F*CK CANCER! I saw an old man on the shuttle bus at MD Anderson and he had a baseball cap on that said CANCER SUCKS! I complimented his hat and he told me he had it made at an embroidery shop near his home. We have one here, too, that I might just wander into someday soon. I told him about these F*UCK CANCER hats and that I didn’t think I had the nerve to wear one around town. He told me, “Why not? Go for it. That’s perfect.” And he’s right!

Planet Cancer has a whole section devoted to what they call “Cancertainment.” Among other things like movies, music, poetry and comics all dealing with cancer subjects, their Top 10 Lists are hi-larious! One of my favorites is as follows:
TOP 10 WAYS TO GET A TASTE OF THE CHEMO EXPERIENCE
10. Set down a delicious array of food before you, then eat only wood pulp for several days
9. Throw up on your lawn
8. Each week at a pre-determined time, wake up, collect some bees and let them sting you, (for that “I can’t seem to get a vein” feeling, apply one of the little brutes to your arm with scotch tape)
7. Throw up on your neighbor’s lawn
6. Shave off your eyebrows, take out your eyelashes (except maybe 3) then Nair the rest of your body. Don’t worry, the burning is normal.
5. For that fun Ativan feeling, wander into a room and ponder all possible means of the word Amazing. Walk out of the room, repeat.
4. Hang upside down from a tree until your face is cherry red, this will help with the dizzy/flushed, red faced feeling of Adriamycin
3. Lay around feeling like you got hit by a truck
2. Attempt to drink Ensure while you are nauseated. To become nauseated, drink an Ensure.
1. Congratulations, you’ve finished one chemo treatment, how many more do you get to do?

This is certainly interesting — a view of the ER through the eyes of an ER nurse!

And finally, Lance Armstrong’s LiveStrong Foundation actually has a Young Adult Alliance offshoot. I’ve barely touched the surface of this site but I intend to delve deeper as time goes on.

Now here’s a challenge I shall pose to you:
We all know about the big pink ribbon stands for breast cancer awareness. And when my grandfather was diagnosed with and subsequently lost his battle with pancreatic cancer, I learned all about the purple ribbon. Red is for AIDS awareness. I think grey or black is for lung cancer (how appropriate). But what about liver cancer? My challenge for you is to ask around, search the web, do whatever you can think of to find out what color my ribbon is. I think I have a good idea from some quick preliminary research but I’d like to be sure. What can you find out?