Ovarian Cancer Awareness

Let’s go Teal for Terry!

September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness month. The first Friday of September is National Wear Teal Day. At Goldstock, we wear our teal on the Friday we’re together, to promote Ovarian Cancer Awareness and to celebrate our good fortune to be able to celebrate our good friend and long-time Goldstocker Terry Veiga.

Wear a teal (or teal-ish) shirt on Friday and gather for a photo before dinner. Location to be determined, but likely in front of the dining hall.

Ovarian Cancer is the deadliest female cancer, with virtually no symptoms.

Our Terry is an unbelievably lucky survivor and tries to spread awareness and educate as much as she can. You can learn more at the American Cancer Society.

A note from Terry (Sept. 2018)

While Goldstock is first and foremost about the dogs, it is also about the people. People you see once a year become family. As family, we support each other in good times and bad. My bad time happened 9 years ago (as of 2018). That was the one and only Goldstock I missed since 2001. That year, I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer.

That year, my friends at Goldstock tried as best they could to include me. A card was passed around camp and signed by hundreds??? A DVD was made of the activities and goings-on. (Including a nausea inducing golf cart ride sequence). And my shopping friends instituted a buy one/get one for Terry policy. If they found a must-have item, they got me one too!!! Love my Goldstock family.

Ovarian Cancer is the deadliest of the gynecological cancers. 95% of woman diagnosed won’t survive 5 years. Somehow, some way I was diagnosed at Stage 1. Only 10% of women get this lucky to be diagnosed at stage 1. At this stage, the survival rate is 95%.

Being one of the chosen few, I feel it is my obligation to spread info about ovarian cancer to help other women learn the signs and symptoms, so that maybe they too can beat the odds. As it turns out, September is National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, and the first Friday of September is National Wear Teal Day. Teal is the color of Ovarian cancer.

Guess where I am almost every Wear Teal Day! While technically Friday at Goldstock may not be September yet, I still wear teal to promote awareness, and most of camp dons their best teal apparel, too! It touches my heart and I hope educates my fellow campers.

So if you’re coming up to camp this year – pack something teal!