Molly MacDonald knows it will create attention and that is what she wants in order to raise funds for a non-profit to help women struggling with financial issues while they undergo breast cancer treatment. Last year, MacDonald was diagnosed with breast cancer and what she remembers is the financial struggles of meeting monthly living expenses and medical expenses. She was between jobs, and found herself barely making if financially and needing to borrow money.
MacDonald would like to help other women who find themselves in the same bind of not only worrying about surviving the chemotherapy and radiation treatments for breast cancer but also how to keep the pantry stocked and sometimes, how to keep from becoming homeless. On Monday, MacDonald is launching an eBay auction of a bust of her pre-surgery breasts.
According to the feature story of events planner and graphics consultant MacDonald, "The great thing about eBay is if it's weird, it gets attention." The bust up for auction was cast by artist Nance Aitchison in dental stone and painted gold and yellow the night before MacDonald's breast cancer surgery last year.
On behalf of women facing financial struggles during breast cancer treatments she hopes to help with her fundraising efforts, she said she is ready for her 15 minutes of eBay fame. MacDonald is calling her non-profit the Pink Fund.
No, Venus de Milo is not up for auction.
1. I love everything that Molly McDonald is doing to help women with breast cancer make ends meet, except....Did she have to name her nonprofit The Pink Fund?
I hate pink!
It's October. But instead of leaves of gold, orange, and red, everywhere I look I see pink.
It's time, yet again, for the pink ribbons. Not to mention pink M&Ms. Pink gardening tools. Pink Web sites.
I didn't like pink BEFORE it became the color of "breast cancer awareness," and now I loath it. (It's a particularly sickly shade of pink, too, a color I associate with girly, sexist expectations.)
To read more, see my blog:
http://www.assertivepatient.com/2006/10/its_octobertime.html
Jeanne
Posted at 3:11AM on Oct 2nd 2006 by Jeanne Sather