Happy Halloween!

Today is Halloween. But we will not have trick or treaters until Friday night. Significant portions of the town do not have power and there are still trees downed all over the place.We had a little storm on Sunday night with wind gusts here to around 50 mph but other places on the coast in the 80-90 mph. A little hurricane came up the east coast and joined up with another front moving east across the country. Their little party was slammed by a Canadian cold front which turned into a massive storm. We got 5 " (just think if that was snow) of rain. So no trick or treating for safety ' s sake for a few days. (But I think all the smart kids are going to get their parents to take them to another town tonight and then back home on Friday so they can trick or treat twice.)But I digress. Years ago, all my friends and I would dress up in our costumes and go to parties for Halloween. That was possible because we were in our twenties and had the ability to stay up after 10 pm and didn ' t really care how we looked like. And it was all about having fun.One year, a friend showed up in regular clothes. We all asked her what her costume was. She said she was a serial killer ' because they looked like everyone else ' .This now makes me think. When you have cancer, you usually pretty much look like yourself and get around, until your cancer progresses and life starts to really suck because it includes a deadline.So along that thinking, I could dress up as a cancer patient and say ' because w...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: ailments appearances being a patient cancer awareness Halloween Source Type: blogs