Friday, October 27 Baseball Players or Weddings

It Being Baseball Season

Brett Butler, tonsil cancer survivor teams up with YBF, The Yul Brenner Foundation. During Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week, beginning April 17, Major League Baseball, MLB, and Brett Butler will join the Yul Brynner Head and Neck Cancer Foundation, YBF, to raise awareness about the importance of early detection in head and neck cancers by offering free screenings. http://www.thecancerblog.com/2006/04/06/brett-butler-throat-cancer-survivor-teams-up-with-ybf "I'm living proof that early diagnosis and treatment can improve your chances of surviving oral, head and neck cancer," said Butler, throat cancer survivor. "That's why I'm encouraging everyone who is at risk for this potentially deadly disease, especially tobacco and alcohol users, to take advantage of the free screenings throughout the country on April 21. You owe it to your family and loved ones to get yourself checked." His story is an inspirational one.

My Father-in-Law
Although, "Brett Butler and I do share the same form of cancer I know what my father-in-law's words would have been.
"If I had had anything in common with the man, I would rather it had been that, I danced at his wedding."

Yul Brynner's Plea
Yul Brynner Twenty years ago, Yul Brynner, dying from lung cancer, made a television commercial that said, "Now that I'm gone, I tell you: Don't smoke, whatever you do, just don't smoke." Brynner was very much alive in January, 1985, when he made this statement on ABC's Good Morning America. But after he died in October of that year, he got his wish. The resulting public service announcement remains one of the most memorable antismoking statements ever made. http://www.headandneck.org/





Yul Brynner, From the King and I, 1956