This may verge on the line of TMI, but today is the day I go for my yearly mammogram. I have had one every year since I turned 30. Most women begin getting yearly mammograms when they turn 40 but since my mother (and two of her sisters) had breast cancer, my sisters and I must take this precaution.

So, for the sake of awareness, I mention this today. And I also would like to mention that many women cannot afford to get mammograms when they need them because they do not have health insurance, and so a test that could potentially save their lives is out of their reach. With that said, there is something you can do.

Every day I click on the button at www.thebreastcancersite.com (I click on all of the other buttons on the site as well–for hunger, literacy, rain forests, etc). I do this first thing in the morning before I do anything else on my computer. It takes a few seconds.

Can you believe that in just a few seconds you could do something as amazing as saving another person’s life?