Hello again I have been off the Grid for a few days!! Imagine that in this 21st century technically connected age!
It was incredible and filled with amazing womyn some of whom have been the backbone of the GLBT movement in Nova Scotia. I met some very inspiring womyn and had fun eating dancing and listening to stories that help me understand our community a little better.
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One person I met there really blew me away - she was short plump, funny, bubbly and welcoming to a stranger. She also was recovering from cancer treatments for a cancer in a place that I had not considered before ** vulva** or Twat as she called it. She had contracted HPV or Human Papillomavirus in her 20's and she was now in her 50's.
She explained that she could no longer ride a bike - Harley Davidson was her bike or horses - she raised horses! This womyn , who from outward appearances was happy and full of life, had to undergo this cancer and resulting surgry because in her time there was no vaccine for the HPV.
If you are reading this and are a young womyn or know young womyn/girls that are sexually active or will be sexually active- PLEASE get the vaccine from your GP or OB/GYN because this is one of the know causes of vulval cancer. This is not the only cause but it is one that can be removed from the equation.
see you at the Zoo
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