Not mine, but others #CancerAwareness by Maggie Blackbird @BlackbirdMaggie author of Born For This #RLFblog #OwnVoices
Welcome to day four of Cancer Awareness posts for 2021 on RLFblog. Today’s guest is Maggie Blackbird.
Although I never experienced cancer firsthand, I did have this awful illness affect my life. Two people within my family battled cancer. My dad lost his fight this summer, and over a decade ago, my older sister faced this horrific disease and prevailed. Within my extended family, I have also watched one cousin, three uncles, and my grandfather succumb to cancer.
While growing up, I didn’t hear too much about the big C. If it did happen, people were shocked and horrified. My BFF, at the tender age of nineteen, lost her dad to this cruel disease. Nowadays, it’s too common, and you know someone who is undergoing chemo, had radiation, or has passed away. Why it’s so common now, I am not sure.
There are always fundraising dinners happening at the recreation centre on the reserve, because someone is always fighting this disease. A childhood friend was taken too soon from lung cancer. She left behind a devastated daughter, mother, and brother.
Awareness is important, along with screening. I faithfully have three screenings done for breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer, and urge others to do the same.
Born for This – Maizemerized #1
She’s always been obsessed with her ancestors, and now he’s offering her a chance to live with them…forever.
Second-year university student Edie Whitecrow gobbles up each course on Indigenous studies. If only she could experience the lives of her Anishinaabe ancestors instead of reading about them. On her way to a Halloween party decked out as a historical Ojibway maiden, she spies a corn maze in a spot known to be barren.
A scarecrow figure beckons Edie to enter with the enticing offer of making her biggest wish come true. She jumps at the chance and finds herself in the past, face to face with the man who haunts her dreams—the handsome brave Thunder Bear. He claims he’s spent twelve years waiting for Gitche Manidoo to send her to him.
Life in the eighteenth century isn’t what Edie romanticized about, though. When her conscience is tested, she must choose between the modern day or the world of her descendants—where the man she was created for resides.
Where to buy Born for This
Publisher https://www.extasybooks.com/Born-for-This
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An Ojibway from Northwestern Ontario, Maggie resides in the country with her husband and their fur babies, two beautiful Alaskan Malamutes. When she’s not writing, she can be found pulling weeds in the flower beds, mowing the huge lawn, walking the Mals deep in the bush, teeing up a ball at the golf course, fishing in the boat for walleye, or sitting on the deck at her sister’s house, making more wonderful memories with the people she loves most.
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