Mattel really got it right with this one. The “Bald and Beautiful” Barbie“ for young girls with cancer is a truly beautiful thing.
I would certainly not consider myself an authority on the relationship girls have to dolls. I was never terribly excited about them.
I hated fashion dolls as they were thin. My mother had explained to me early on that none of the women in our family were thin — so I would never be. She tried to find me a chubbier doll, but I was not fond of clothes then. Maybe I could have related to a doll that looked fat enough to need to shop at Lane Bryant for clothes that fit. There was no such doll then. Read more on A Company With Heart — The Bald Barbie Story…
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While so-called “Universal Health Care” can have tremendous advantages in the primary care field, it is totally unable to deal with specialized care. A case in point — and an all-too-common case — is cancer treatment. Time is of the essence when dealing with cancer, as the chance of recovery and survival is best if it is caught and treated early.
This video is not an isolated case. A very dear friend of mine could tell you a very similar story about her thyroid cancer and the frustrations of the Canadian Public Health system — but without the happy ending.
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