G'day!
On behalf of all those tireless folk committed to this cause, we thank-you.
Another year over, and a new one has begun…..so now what?
Our road trip for awareness!
Don’t let it be said there are never plans for the future, especially within the ranks of our Feel Teal Club members! It seems every time we think one event/project is complete, someone is already thinking of another…the brainstorming can be contagious, and so much fun!
The pace has seriously picked-up on our “awareness” campaigning, a weekly podcast production via the Feel Teal Talk show and the Feel Teal Club’s monthly magazine releases-the 2012 January edition just went out and is already receiving great feedback! Thank-you to all our readers!
We never want our followers to miss a beat, so here’s a couple of tips to keep you in the TEAL-LOOP!
Feel Teal Talk show has its own embeddable player….a simple code which you copy/paste onto a webpage or blog and giving you instant access to each episode! If you’d like an example of how they look, check-out our links here:
http://www.feeltealclub.com/feeling-teal.html
http://titansofteal.yolasite.com/news.php
http://debra2760.tripod.com/tokensofteal/what-s-new.html
Just visit the show’s website: http://feeltealtalk.podbean.com/ and click on Embeddable Player!
This year, apart from sharing each Feel Teal Club Magazine publication “online”, we are encouraging readers to “subscribe”….be among the first to get a copy as it hits the web-stands!
You may also like to have it embedded in a reader-friendly digital format with both Issuu.com and FreeYudu.com offering easy-to-handle codes! Here are some examples:
http://www.feeltealclub.com/news-events.html
http://titansofteal.yolasite.com/news.php
http://1stopawareness.weebly.com/
To “subscribe” follow link here:
http://issuu.com/msd23/docs/jan_mag/1
Episode 5 of the Feel Teal Talk show kicked-off with the theme, “You are beautiful” and this was definitely felt throughout the programme.
After a quick Event Update from “yours truly”, a rather funny recount of a Christmas story from Shelly, we were introduced to titan, Julie Aldridge. Julie’s personal experience with ovarian cancer came via her daughter, Sarah…at 28 years of age, Sarah had been diagnosed with stage 3 only months after the birth of her second child.
Julie writes: Sarah had gone in to have her gall bladder removed, and came out with this news. I can’t begin to tell you how crippling those words were, and how scary. Having to tell her…..was beyond words….it was the beginning of our journey.
A journey which would bring Julie across my path and that of the Feel Teal Club! It began when Julie left a post on our Facebook page which was about finding more teal merchandise. Like so many others, she expressed her desire to see this made available to the public and I couldn’t have agreed more! And so we connected on a regular basis from that day forward, which also led to other (as Shelly describes) “teal-connections”.
Hearing her speak about Sarah’s experience on-air, I could hear the pain in her voice….a mother is the one who kisses the “hurt”, and makes it all better…how do you do that with cancer?She described her daughter as the “girly” type, the one who likes to look pretty, from head to toe and so this brought up another very important piece of the cancer puzzle….it isn’t just about the disease, but also about the treatments. Let’s face it, chemotherapy isn’t gentle…..it wants to attack and destroy the cancer cells by keeping the cells from further multiplying. Unfortunately, chemotherapy does not know the difference between the cancerous cells and the normal cells.
Chemotherapy drugs are powerful medications that attack rapidly growing cancer cells. Unfortunately, these drugs also attack other rapidly growing cells in your body — including those in your hair roots. Chemotherapy may cause hair loss all over your body — not just on your scalp. Sometimes your eyelash, eyebrow, armpit, pubic and other body hair also falls out. Some chemotherapy drugs are more likely than others to cause hair loss, and different doses can cause anything from a mere thinning to complete baldness.
Julie’s story is also about courage, both mother & daughter seem to be on their own mission….I can’t begin to imagine what Sarah has been feeling during this journey….it has not been easy. She has been so strong, so brave,courageous and what a fighter my girl is!
You can hear this beautiful & inspirational interview, (and much more) right here!
Please be aware the need to change the name of Talking Teal to Feel Teal Talk (podcast) was not really an option, but more a conscious decision to continue onward using our “brand name”…..a wise move!
The Feel Teal Club is well recognised (these days) so we don’t want to confuse the public……the show’s format remains unchanged so sit back and enjoy the fun as we bring you this weekly podcast devoted to news, events and resources related to ovarian cancer. It will also include interviews with survivors and supporters: Titans of Teal and others who continue to spread the message of awareness 7 days a week, 52 days a year.
Be sure to check our Facebook page for any special episodes, meanwhile, here’s the first podcast episode which was recorded Friday, November 19th, 2011.
Just when you think we couldn’t possibly come up with another idea, along comes a designing-titan with a proposal you KNOW you are going to love!
Comedian/Writer/Feel Teal Club Supporter, Shelly Ryan is no stranger to creativity, her recent chain of events are a testimony to this fact but this doesn’t slow her down…..The writing & publication of a book was just a prelude to the next big step she was about to take, and of course, it involved her gift with humour and her teal-connection!
Inside October’s issue of the Feel Teal Club magazine, Shelly talked about her involvement with the club, (as far back as 2009) and that lovely heartfelt tribute to Gilda (Radner), which led to many special connections being forged, especially with those she had come into contact with through the club. This “connection” would see her spreading awareness as easily as she did the laughter, brightening many a day for those who would eventually find their way over to the (Floor it)Humour Highway Facebook page!
In that previous magazine article, we got to meet Georgia, and we read how ovarian cancer had touched Georgia’s life….the sad loss of another mother.
This “teal-connection” led Georgia to join-in on the Quilt project, so I too made a new friend…..but it doesn’t stop there! With the network of titans now expanding at a rapid pace, Shelly was already planning her next move and I was just as keen to hear what she had in mind….we discussed the notion of a radio production….something that could be shared over the internet allowing our “titans” to gain easy access while Shelly took the awareness to a higher level! This would include highlighting one guest per week in a ‘talk-back show’ format, discussing everything that is, TEAL!
The benefits to hosting such a programme are truly endless and what better way for a titan to share her passion than through talking?!
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