Susan G. Komen Foundation

I saw an article in my local paper. The local tissue bank was wanting *normal* breast tissue samples for research. I was going to be in the area, so I signed up.

The whole experience was great. Everyone was very positive, helpful, thankful you where there to donate your time and tissue for research.

They were very organized. Greeted you at the door. Not only showed you where to go, but had a volunteer personally TAKE you there.

They took your weight, you filled out a health history, donated blood. One of the questions on the health history was how many kids do you have? 5 Did you breastfeed and how long? Had to do the math on that one. We breastfed all 5 kids till they were a year and a half old. They wanted the answer in months. 90 months. 7 1/2 years. I told the lady next to me, “someone looking at this won’t believe it”. She laughed and said her mom breastfed all 8 of her kids.

Then it came time for the tissue sample. I was a little worried about how I would do. Would prefer to pass on needle sticks any time I can. Cant’ really stand going to the dentist.

But, once I got past the *stick*. I was numb. The doctor and nurse were great. Very comforting to talk to while the procedure was happening. They took 3 small samples–each about the size of a pea.

That was it. All over. Not bad at all. Would do it again.

They did not give us any money (was not looking for any) for our time. But we did get a great pink t-shirt. And a Vera Bradley ID case. (picture coming soon)

How cool is that?

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