Archive for the ‘Health’ Category
1/4 Life Crisis?
R.I.P. Ms. Kitt
On Christmas, Ms. Eartha Kitt passed away of colon cancer at 81 years old. She came from being born on a plantation in North, South Carolina to being a successful actress and sex symbol. I remember first seeing her as cat woman when the Adam West re-runs of Batman play on WPIX when I was a little girl and then in Boomerang when she told Eddie Murphy’s character, “I don’t have any panties on.” And that was just the tip of the iceberg with her career! You are definitely going to be missed, Ms. Kitt!
For those of you who thought you couldn’t catch anything from having oral sex.
Oral sex has been linked to throat cancer. Please, protect yourselves out there. No matter what typed of sex your having, it’s very important to use condoms.
R.I.P. Paul Newman
September 26, 2008, Paul Newman died at his home surrounded by the comfort of family and close friends. He had completed chemotherapy for lung cancer in August, and finally succumbed to the disease yesterday. Newman has lived a life longed for by most with a successful and lasting career with many friends. He will not only be remembered by his films but also for his philanthropy with his Newman’s Own Charity. He is a legend that will be missed.
Maria Davis
Jim Jones and Maria Davis
On Saturday, the neighborhood bakery Make My Cake held a “Client Appreciation Day” fair right outside its doors to honor it patrons for the great business they’ve been getting. There was cupcakes, hamburgers, hot dogs, voter registration, community groups, and music. I talk at length to a few people, not including neighbors, and the one person that really impressed me was a woman who told me she is an HIV survivor just past me asking what she had set up a table for and then asked me. Her name is Maria Davis and she was advocating safe sex for LIFEbeat. She was a music promoter in the ’90s when she contracted the virus from her ex-boyfriend who kept his status hidden from her and even his family. She is very serious about speaking up on people knowing about protecting themselves and knowing about AIDS. She even grilled me on my status, what HIV meant, what AIDS meant, and how would I know if I had AIDS? I aced the pop quiz, by the way!
After finishing up at Make My Cake’s street fair, she was setting up to drive out to Long Island to promote condom use, getting tested, and knowing your status at a Latin music concert. She was very well prepared with condoms and sex education literature in Spanish and she met a woman who works at a voters registration office in Harlem that has Spanish language voter registration forms she could pass out. I expressed to Ms. Davis that I am interested in interviewing her and she gave her card. I am very excited to talk to her, especially since the HIV/AIDS rate among African-American women is is higest due to unprotected sex and many still believing that HIV/AIDS is a homosexual disease. I can’t wait to interview her, although I don’t know where I’ll send the article to. It’s still a very important issue that needs to be stressed – that HIV/AIDS and other UTIs do not discriminate, anyone can get sick and that if you are sick you need to get help and treat your illness and not get bitter and angry.
