There can be life after breast cancer. The prerequisite is early detection. ~Ann Jillian

"Housekeeping ain't no joke." - Louisa May Alcott.

Happy birthday to Hazel Francis seen here with Peter Francis.  They hired me as their housekeeper in the late 90's in Canada.  They gave me this photo which I put a Canadian sticker and wrote Live 101 because I experienced through them what to love each other meant.  From making sandwiches for each other to giving the last kiss to a dying spouse. First Peter died, then months after Hazel.  They could not live without each other. They were the first elderly couple I saw sleeping in separate bedrooms, leave alone separate beds.  Then I realised other couples did this too.  Very interesting.  I don't know if it is a Canadian thing to sleep alone, a health thing or an old people's thing.

It is awesome to have the sunflower image on the photo, my favourite flower that "follows every movement of the sun."  A song from advanced school, Kenya. Happy birthday to my class mate Alice Okoko, Loreto High School Matunda, 1986-1987. 

Peter Francis was in the war, (respect) and he got to Canada where Hazel Francis joined him with their daughter.  Hazel and their daughter came by boat from Europe when the daughter was five years old.

They had two grandsons from their daughter.

Peter, that charm you gave me ended up with Michael Fraser who used to teach at Arbutus school and later SJ Willis.  I would like my charm back please Michael, if at all possible.  I was mentally ill when I gave the necklace with the charm away.  Peace.

Hazel showed me her chest one day, she had rough Total Mastectomy done.  Both breasts were gone - seemed brutal. Which reminds me, I need to book for a mammogram screening - I am glad to live in British Columbia (BC) Canada, thank the #Lord.  I was traumatised at the surgical marks on Hazel.  The procedure seems more forgiving today. 

Years ahead, I would meet my late girlfriend Gayle Quin who would thereafter battle breast cancer, have one breast removal, and subsequently die of cancer spreading into her bones. I miss her.

RIP Gayle.

My prayer is for the whole world to have the same/if not better standard of screening for breast cancer as does BC Cancer Agency, who provide Care and Research through the Provincial Health Services Authority.  According to BC Cancer Agency, women between age 40 - 74 without breast cancer history in the family can have a mammogram every two years and women 40 - 74 years of age with breast cancer history in one first degree relative should have a mammogram every year.

A doctor's referral is not needed.
LINK - Breast Cancer - BC Cancer Agency.