I’m Zana Price of Foley and I am currently successfully battling stage two Breast Cancer.
I am also a charter member of the South Baldwin Relay for Life.
The 11th Annual South Baldwin Relay will be held Friday May 4 on the campus of Foley High School from 7 pm until midnight.
Donations raised by Relay Teams support the American Cancer Society's life saving programs of research, education, advocacy and patient services right here in our community.
I invite you to come out and “Saddle Up for a Cure.”
The Relay gives you the power to help in the Fight Against Cancer.
By joining together as volunteers and donors, our efforts help the American Cancer Society strive toward a future where cancer doesn’t take the lives of our friends and family
One day. One night. One community.
Your Relay for Life is about celebration, remembrance, and hope.
By participating, you honor cancer survivors, pay tribute to the lives we've lost to the disease, and raise money to help fight it – all right here in South Baldwin.
You won't want to miss one moment of this life- and community-affirming event!
For more information call 251 928-8650

South Baldwin Relay May 4, 2007

Theme for Relay this Year

May 4, 2007

"Saddle Up for a Cure"

I found me this hat on ebay! Yea!

Sometimes the lap is the victory.
For cancer survivors, each day, month, and year is a victory

The American Cancer Society invites you to join in our
Survivor’s Reception and first lap of this year’s Relay For Life.
We applaud your courage and strength and want you to join
in our community’s effort to take up the fight against cancer.
We need your help to truly impact our mission of eliminating
cancer as a major health problem.
There is no finish line... until we find a cure!
You are invited
South Baldwin Relay For Life
Survivors Reception
Date: May 4, 2007
Registration Time: 5:00 PM
Reception Begins: 5:30 PM
Survivor Bus Departs Cafeteria for Field: 6:40 PM
Relay Begins: 7:00 PM
Location: Foley High School Cafeteria (behind Wal-Mart)
Foley, Alabama
Cancer information is available 24 hours a day seven days a week
By calling Tel. (251) 928-8650 or (800) ACS-2345 or the website at: www.cancer.org
Reception information: contact Zana Price 943-1124 or zanadu@gulftel.com

RFL - Baldwin County South Baldwin Foley AL contact information:Email Address: Kim.Bertagnolli@cancer.orgContact Name: Kim Bertagnolli

Light a Candle to Fight Cancer
South Baldwin Relay For Life May 4, 2007
Survivor Reception Foley High Cafeteria 5:00 pm
Foley High School Opening Ceremony 7:00 pm
Luminaria Ceremony at 10:00 pm


Name: ______________________________________


Address: _____________________________________


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Telephone: ___________________________________


I would like to:

____ Buy ___# luminaria(s) ($5.00 donation per luminary) Please fill out the section below.
____ Find out how to be a Team Captain.
____ Join a Team
____ Help Volunteers during the Event.
____ Be honored or involved as a Survivor at the Relay.

In Memory of: Name: _________________________

Name: _________________________

Name: _________________________

In Honor of: Name: _________________________

Name: _________________________

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Make checks payable to the American Cancer Society
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Mail to: or turn in at Relay before 8:00 PM
American Cancer Society Office
19059 Greeno Road, Suite AFairhope, AL 36532
(251) 621-7996

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For further information regarding luminaries, please contact
Luminary Chairpersons: Angie Johnston at Ebert Agency 943-2281 or Nikki Jones
at Hope Medical Group 251 943-1680

Visit the event website at http://www.acsevents.org/faf/r.asp?t=3&i=190629

3/18/07 Top Ten Chemo Room Do's & Don'ts

1. 
   TOP 10 DO's for Chemo Room
   1. Do prepared for chemo session to last longer than anticipated. Side effects do happen.
   
2. Do take medication to lessen the anxiety ½ hour before treatment.
   
3. Do use the bathroom and get a cup of water before you sit down in the chemo chair.
   
4. Do plan on having someone to drop you off and pick you up from chemo. Operating a vehicle may be hazardous after the pre meds.
   
5. Do take notice of others territory of chairs, patients often prefers to sit in the same chair each treatment if possible.
   
6. Do ask for a pillow or blanket if that makes you more comfortable.
   
7. Do tell the nurses if you start to feel “any” different sensations during treatment, i.e. eyes burning, throat closing, nose burning, headache, etc. ASAP
   
8. Do wear very comfortable clothing that offers ready access to medi port or veins. Loose sleeves, open front shirt, etc.
   
9. Do be forgiving of other patients as they snore, whine, cry, and over look excessive passing of toxic chemo gas.
10. Do remember the free snacks are for patients only.

TOP 10 DON'TS for CHEMO ROOM

1. Don’t wear strong smelling perfumes.
   
2. Don’t expect to feel like chatting with the patient next to you. “Everyone is getting poison in their veins. “
   
3. Don’t bring with you into the chemo room more than ONE support person. Limited space, respect others privacy. We sometimes, throw up, get sick in the chair, etc.
   
4. Don’t bring anyone that has a cold or sickly if possible to sit in the chemo room.
   
5. Don’t be a litter bug around your chemo chair; clear it of debris, thrash, wrappers, cups, tissues, etc. Your mother doesn’t work here.
   
6. Don’t be late for your appointment; it throws off everyone’s schedule.
   
7. Don’t think its “ALL ABOUT YOU!” Everyone in here thinks it’s all about them.
   
8. Don’t eat all of the same free snacks in the basket. i.e all of the Cheetos
   
9. Don’t take your shoes off.
   
10. Don’t hesitate to ask another patient if they would like something if a support person is making a fast food run. (within reason)

Top 10 Mammo List 3/21/07 Steroid High 4:07 AM after Chemo Tuesday

1. Well I am posting this very important Top 10 List I received from the girl who saved my life. August 29, 2006 from “My Favorite Boob Girl “ my mammographer.

Remember to have your

Annual Check up & Mammo


Hey! I hope you are doing well. I received your emails and thought.....I wish I could post a list similar to this in the mammo waiting area.....

1. Please do not use powders, deodorant, perfumes or lotions; however, a quick shower prior to reporting for your mammogram is appreciated!!!

2. Physicians....Please explain to your patient that wearing lotion during a mammogram will cause your droopy, booby to slide away from the mammographer's hands while positioning. I mean really ladies....mammography’s would make a lot more money working nights in the lotion pit at Sammy's...we don't need you to slather up to remind us!

3. Ladies.....Powder stays in creases no matter how many wipes you use. Thus the rule...Don't wear powder under your Double G boobs. And for the not so bright.....WE ARE TALKING ABOUT BODY POWDER. Why do patients insist on telling me that they can't leave home without their Vagisil crotch powder in our extreme climate????

4. The culmination of your mammogram should not lead to celebratory perfume spraying in the mammography department. I smell like a French Whore some days after two patients!!

5. Please do not threaten the mammographer with bodily harm upon entering the mammography department. This will only lead to an aggressive struggle for power. GUESS WHAT??? THE ONE THAT HAS TO RUN AROUND THAT GLASS TO MAKE THE PICTURE HAS THE POWER!!!!!

6.Please do not ask the mammographer....."Did you really go to school to do this????" Yes I did and aren't you glad when I save your life?

7. I am a mammographer.......My life is a boob joke and no I don't need you to tell me about the email that you received telling you "how to prepare for a mammogram."

8. Please don't ask....is this what you do all day??? The answer is YES!!! or would you rather hear, "No, I'm just filling in for the mammographer. I hope she hurries up though....I have 40 toilets to scrub before lunch!!"

9. Please think about the breast history questions that you are being asked prior to blurting out something irrelevant and stupid. Example: Is there a family history of breast cancer? "Why yes, my husband's family has a very strong history."
And Last but not Least

10. When asked. Are you having any problems with your breasts? Please don't whine.....Well they're not as perky as they used to be. Really??? Well let me step out and place a call to the CDC. I think we are having an epidemic!!!!!

Just a little professional mammo humor!!!! As you know...I am always professional and would never express any of these views to my patients.

Lots of love
From Zana's favorite Booby Girl

3-15-07 Last Four Taxol Chemos to Go

Well here is a happy photo from New Years Eve with my good friend Linda Sue at her daughter's wedding. Moi' in my fancy Raquel Welch wig and my real eyebrows (while they lasted).This week I made it over the hump with the downside of the last 4 weeks of chemo ahead of me.I don't know how long term patients are able to keep going. Including my mom. I feel badly that I never truly understood what she was going through. Crap, I may have to go take an antivan! We all just expected her to keep on keeping on (cooking, shopping, cleaning, laundry.) And she rarely complained, she vented by pushing our buttons in pointing out our short comings.

This week's chemo treatment once again made my throat close up & my eyes burn. I get a bag full of pre meds before the Taxol which includes 35 mg of benedryl and 10 mg decadron plus some other good stuff. Thank goodness nurses Carol & Nikki are able to really slow down the drip when the side effects come on. I had to pop an antivan mid way through as there were a large number of first time non patients in the room and when you are having poison pumped through your veins along with four others in chemo chairs you still can't help but feel it's all about "you." Moral support is great but more than two is too many. Hey, cook a meal, clean a toilet, go to the grocery store and make sure the milk is in date in the fridge, if you wish to help.
The space is so limited, it’s hard enough to get up and maneuver that pole to the bathroom with just a few in the room. Much less watching you have side effects or most of the time me snoring

Even though I am in the chemo chair for about 2 1/2 - 3 hours per treatment the time seems to fly. After the first 45-60 minutes my tongue gets thick and I get really loopy. Thank goodness, so many of my good friends have taken care of transporting me to and from the doctor’s office. Mary Rush is my usual mode of transport; Missy, Becky, Jamie, Patti, Mary Leslie and even Glen Page have filled in. Getting there is not a problem it's the being coherent enough to walk out the door much less drive home. I had thought that I would get so bored during 16 weeks of Chemo. All the thank you notes I would write, the opportunity for leisure reading. NOT! I am doing good to glance over the copy of my one page blood work report. I do get to control the big flat screen TV remote while I am there. If I fall asleep with it in my hand no one has had the nerve yet to pry my fingers off and change the channel.

I am so very fortunate to be in Foley at Hope Medical Group with Dr. Tan, I don't know how nurse's Carol & Nikki manage to make sure each and every patient genuinely feel they are the only one they are caring for. Sometimes there are as many as 5-6 patients receiving Chemo at once. Plus the phone ringing, people like me passing through asking questions. They are so professional and patient. Being in a small facility fortunately allows patients like me the extra time to take their treatment slowly if needed. They aren't pushing 20-30 treatments through a day. I will receive my 30 days of radiation there with Dr. Hixson. It is only a mile from my house.

Oh! The latest is we have bats in our chimney. In the past 3 1/2 weeks we have had four bats in the house, two in the living room and two in our bedroom. Both have fireplaces. And Sunday at dusk we watched the little endangered, , mosquito eating vermin take flight from under the flashing around the chimney on the second floor. Well over 50 bats flew out. We have searched the internet and read all about building bat boxes, trying to find Bat Removal Experts and now know more than I ever cared to know. I don't mind them being in the chimney just not in my living room with us guiding them out the front door or knocking them down with the broom & picking them up with a towel to throw out the door.

The South Baldwin Relay for Life is Friday May 4, 2007. At Foley High School. If you know of any Survivors that would like to come to the special Survivors Reception which is before the opening ceremonies and the Survivors Lap please let me know.

South Baldwin Relay For LifeSurvivors

Reception Date: May 4, 2007

Registration Time: 5:00 PM

Reception Begins: 5:30 PM

Bus Departs Cafeteria for Field: 6:40 PM

Relay Begins: 7:00 PM

Location: Foley High School Cafeteria (behind Wal-Mart) Foley, Alabama

Cancer information is available 24 hours a day seven days a week by calling (251) 928-8650 or (800) ACS-2345 or the website at: http://www.cancer.org/

Reception information: contact Zana Price 943-1124 or zanadu@gulftel.com

I have not been posting much as the Taxol makes my hands shake some. It's a #ithch trying to draw on eyebrows with unsteady hands.
If you know of anyone that is need of a wig go to the web site http://www.tlcdirect.org/ and check out the wigs, I even got my Pat Benatar one from the clearance section.