The Fight Against Cancer

This is great! I met Kim a couple weeks ago when she sent me an email. Kim's mother also fought cervical cancer when Kim was a young girl. And Kim lost her uncle to Lung cancer in 2004. I can't imagine how difficult it must be for someone to see cancer all around them, just awful. Kim has been kind enough to offer my bloggy friends a great deal! She has written the following post so read it and please leave her a comment saying hi! Oh and if you don't have anyone to get one of these for theres always me...lol....they do look GREAT!


The Fight Against Cancer

Everyone in America today has someone in their family and/or knows someone who has been affected by cancer. Meaghan has made her fight against cancer known to us all and she is determined to get the best of cancer and not let cancer get the best of her. Through reading her blog, I've learned more about cancer outside of National Breast Cancer Month than ever before. Breast cancer is in the forefront because it is one of the leading causes of cancer for women but as Meaghan has taught us all, cancer comes in many forms.

With cancer affecting so many lives and families, it should not just be in the forefront only one month out of the year. Cancer is a daily disease not a monthly disease. In honor of Meaghan and all others who are determined to live their lives and fight cancer everyday, I would like to offer you, her supporters, free shipping on pink gifts and gift baskets from Fruit Nut & Candle Gift Baskets.com. Send a gift to a cancer survivor to show your continued support and encouragement for their hard fought battle(s).

Just log on at fruitnutandcandlegiftbaskets.com/breastcancer and enter the code "meaghan" at checkout to receive your free shipping. This coupon is good until December 31st 2009.

Thank you Meaghan for displaying the power of the human spirit to us all.

Buy Coffee And Fight Melanoma!!!

I just wanted to make a quick announcement. My new online Coffee Shop: Get The Bean has picked its first Charity/Coffee combo! We are going to donate a portion of the proceeds from ALL sales of the Mexico Coetepec Blend to the Melanoma Research Foundation in memory of my fabulous professor who recently lost her battle against Melanoma. If you want to read more about this please visit our GTB Fights Cancer Blog

If you want to purchase the Mexico Coetepec Blend its under Charity Coffee on our website: Get The Bean.

Great Cancer Patient Gift Idea

Okay so im totally stealing this awesome idea. I cannot take credit for it but when I heard it I had to share. One of my professors is battling melanoma. She is brilliant, passionate, young and someone who has helped me through my journey. I don't want to get into too many details because she is a private person but just know that this is a huge tragedy in my life. I think about her daily and she is always in my prayers.

Well one gift that was given to her was a "Laugh Basket". What an awesome idea. Everyone gathered together and picked out their favorite Comedies, put them into a basket and brought it to her. I wish I thought of this myself. When I was battling my dear friend Shaken Fruit gave me a super awesome stand up comedy DVD. It was the first time I had laughed that hard since I was diagnosed.

Laughing actually has great healing power Giving the gift of laughter means you are doing more than showing your love and support, you are helping the person get healthier.


"Laughter activates the chemistry of the will to live and increases our capacity to fight disease. Laughing relaxes the body and reduces problems associated with high blood pressure, strokes, arthritis, and ulcers. Some research suggests that laughter may also reduce the risk of heart disease. Historically, research has shown that distressing emotions (depression, anger, anxiety, and stress) are all related to heart disease. A study done at the University of Maryland Medical Center suggests that a good sense of humor and the ability to laugh at stressful situations helps mitigate the damaging physical effects of distressing emotions."


So, if you know someone who is feeling down or is sick give them the gift of laughter, give them the "laugh basket"


Dont forget to get in on my GiveAway
Check out our new Gift Baskets at Get The Bean

GET THE BEAN IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS

Get The Bean is now officially open for business !! Now you can visit our site and place orders. We have all sorts of great things on our site. Estate, Signature, Flavored & Peaberry coffees. We have more than just coffee. We have wonderful herbal teas, chai tea and fruit tea smoothies. There's even more than that but i'll let you check it out.

Our site as a super cool club as well. If you become a member you get free stuff and great discounts. We have an awesome fundraising plan as well. Hope you get a chance to visit the website and explore.

Here is the best part- to launch our website we are doing a great GIVEAWAY! For the month of October we are going to giveaway 1 bag of coffee EVERY WEEK!

RULE TO ENTER:

YOU NEED TO ENTER VIAWWW.GETTHEBEAN.BLOGSPOT.COM
1. Go to our website www.getthebean.com
2. Pick your favorite item
3. Leave a comment on www.getthebean.blogspot.com (if you leave the comment here it wont count towards the giveaway)
4. Post about it on your blog to get an extra 5 entries (if you post about this giveaway leave your blog url so we can check it out)
5. For an extra entry Digg us
6. For an extra entry Stumble us

Every Friday we will pick a new winner and send them a 16 oz bag of gourmet coffee, whole bean or ground!