Light a Blue Bulb for Prostate Cancer Awareness Month

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This year, let's take prostate cancer awareness building into our own hands.

Light a Blue Bulb every night (or, for a few nights) during September.

Too often, we look to nonprofits, government agencies and corporations to lead

our advocacy efforts…and, sometimes, we are deeply disappointed. This year, our

national prostate cancer nonprofit, Malecare, asks us to take personal

responsibility and build advocacy from the grass roots, up. So, please do the

simple task of getting a blue bulb and lighting it where your neighbors might

see it. Get ready for your neighbors to ask you, " why the blue bulb? " Proudly

express your desire that all men and women become more aware about prostate

cancer.

Get a blue bulb at your local hardware store or online at homedepot.com or

amazon.com or dig one out from your party box. Set it in your porch light or a

lamp by a window. And, simply, light it for a few hours, or all night.

Post your thoughts at malecare.org/blue Did you use Prostate Cancer Awareness

Month to remember someone whom you have lost? We would be honored to publish a

paragraph about the person you cared about, and, you can even upload a photo.

Perhaps a photo of the person you wish were still here, or of you, by your blue

light bulb.

If in the moment that you screw in a blue light bulb, you think to yourself,

" I ought to make a doctor's appointment, " then Prostate Cancer Awareness Month

has done its job. We need to say to ourselves, " we are worth taking care of,

that our lives are worthy of health and happiness, that I will commit to asking

my doctor what tests I need to stay alive. "

Thanks for honoring us, all, by supporting Prostate Cancer Awareness Month.