That’s right! We have a tie for our tweet that best captures the spirit of our October 1st #BreastCancerRealityCheck event! Twitter users @cattyfizzle and @uneasykt wrote the winning tweets. Their winning tweets are:
A donation of £113 GBP (or $146 USD at current exchange rate) will be made to METAvivor in @uneasykt’s name, and another donation of £113 GBP (or $146 USD at current exchange rate) will be made to Second Hope in @cattyfizzle’s name.
Needless to say, this was an extremely tough decision. @barbieslosingit and myself sifted through the nearly 1,000 tweets that went out last Saturday and whittled them down to a list of 12 for the 5 judges to vote upon. Took us a week, yes, but we did it! Kudos to our esteemed panel of judges: @Stickit2Stage4 , @bccww, @itsthebunk, @abcdiagnosis, and @deedeesmiles4u.
The winning tweets felt most impactful, and we feel will likely resonate with most breast cancer patients. @uneasykt’s point about not knowing we are “cured” until we die of something else applies to all breast cancer patients whether we were diagnosed anywhere from Stage 0 to 4, regardless of recurrence status. And how many of us relate to @cattyfizzle’s graphic—I know I’ve personally elected to try falling asleep rather than falling apart!
Again, we thank everyone for tweeting last Saturday. We have been heard! That would NOT have happened without everyone’s wonderful participation. I could post an entry a day here on this blog and never adequately express enough gratitude.
Of course, since last Saturday, #BreastCancerRealityCheck has taken on a life of its own, and countless others have created even more tweets eloquently summing up our realities. We had no idea, back when this was a glimmer of an idea in those last sunny days of summer, that this idea would hit such a nerve (though now that I think about it, not sure why we didn’t suspect it—ha ha!). We must keep it up. The movements–#BreastCancerRealityCheck along with The Underbelly’s #WhyIsThisPink campaign, and others—are taking off and starting a conversation. Let us now attempt to keep it going, and to maybe get through to a few people whose minds are open.
anotheronewiththecancer 
Curmudgeon, You ain’t wearing any blinders, girl. I love that about you andIhatethecancer with you and FOR you. So I started a blog…..lololol you should SEE me setting up this gotdam asshole. “My font! My profile pic!” Like it should be in the museum of **Impatient Shame-A Woman Has Nothing to Say….so She Starts a Blog** So I am now following you, and thanks for being on the earth. Kim
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Ha ha–thank you! Oh man, you should see me get bogged down in technical details! I was struggling with Storify for this contest. And oh man, I know I need to update this blog and make it more pro looking–but the thought makes me tired. I know something will go wrong when I try to migrate the content. I just can’t even with all of it right now.
Thanks for the follow–look forward to see what kind of nothing you got to say, ha ha!
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