The Squid Calendar

Protecting your skin from dangerous UV rays is something we often forget. Protect you largest organ (your skin) every time you leave the house. July is UV Safety Month.

Here are a few ideas for protecting yourself and the ones you love from UV rays:

Sun Shade Sails | UV Protection in the garden by DinosaurEgg

Kids’ Sunglasses : UV Protect : Kidz Banz : Baby Banz by imaginemdd

The American Heart Association sponsors National Wear Red Day each year in early February. On this day everyone is encouraged to wear red in support of heart disease awareness, especially awareness of heart disease in women.

Learn more about National Wear Red Day here.

Red dress in wildflowers photo by Michael (mx5tx)

September is World Luekemia & Lymphoma Month.

Living With Leukemia (Leukaemia) by Waxing-Lyrical

Consider making a lens today that donates to The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

Today is World Alzheimer’s Day.  As many as 5.3 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease. (source)  It’s impact stretches far beyond the person living with it, into the lives of the family, friends, and caregivers.

Dealing with Alzheimer’s – my personal experiences by spirituality

Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness T-Shirts and Gifts for Caregivers and Family by slotowngal

Alzheimer’s Movies, Books and Songs by imaginemdd

Yesterday started the fourteenth annual Balance Awareness Week (September 19-25, 2010). Any person with a problem with balance can tell you that it is an extremely difficult thing to deal with.  Simple activities of daily life become great tasks when your balance is impaired.

My life with Meniere’s Disease by davidstillwagon
Otosclerosis – a disease of the middle ear by aj2008
How Meniere’s Disease Has Impacted My Life by TrinaSonnenberg

PS – If anyone knows of an illness that would make shiny floors trigger dizziness, please contact me.

Pediculosis?  uh…yeah…that means lice.

Yep.  September is National Pediculosis Prevention Month.  Kids are back in school people are coming inside from the sunny days of summer and lice is jumping from head to head.

Learn a little more about lice:
Pictures of head lice by human-kind-projects
How To Get Rid Of Headlice by Squidoo_Queen

Tonight, on all four major television networks, will air Stand Up 2 Cancer.  This star packed event will raise awareness for cancer issues, and raise money for cancer research.  Tune in tonight at 8PM (7 Central) on ABC, CBS, NBC or FOX.

Cancer does not discriminate.  It strikes all ages, all races, and all economic statuses.

These pages were written by people with first hand experience standing up to cancer:

Diagnosed with Breast Cancer – My story by alteredkat
Cancer Warrior by Susan52
Cancer is a Punk by papawu

September is Pain Awareness Month. Millions of people suffer chronic pain. Chronic Pain is a physical problem, but it has physiologic, emotional, social, and economic implications.

Learn more at Pain Awareness Month by Macs.

Today is World Blood Donor Day. The need for blood is universal. It is needed worldwide by the young and the old, the rich and the poor. If you are able to donate blood, you will find that it is a simple process that can help someone else go on living.

I am a blood donor, and since both my mother and my sister have received blood, this is an important issue to me.

Learn more about Donating Blood, it’s importance, and the process of blood donation from LeorG.

Also, JohannTheDog shares the importance of dog blood donation.

Photo by Herkie used by permission CC 2.0

Today is National Running Day, the day we recognize running as a great tool in fitness leading to having a happier, healthier, and stronger body (and heart!).

Learn how to Get Fit to Run (by sixquid).

Meet some of the greatest runners, at
The Best American Marathoners Ever by buraian.

Would you like to run, but can’t bear to leave the computer?
Then make your own treadmill desk for free! (by ChapelHillFiddler)

So, today, get off that computer chair, and go for a run!

Photo by Daveybot used by CC 2.0