Liz' Promise

When Liz Manley-Theobold’s mother died from ovarian cancer last July, the Olympic silver medalist made a vow to take better care of herself. On Thursday, the perennially bubbly 44-year-old is going to do just that. A little more than a year after her mother passed away, she is getting her first ovarian ultrasound, to check for the disease. “I’m a little scared, but I need to know,” says Manley-Theobold, who is nevertheless upbeat and says she’d like to have a child this year with husband Brent. “I have no other symptoms, but because Mum had ovarian cancer, I am at risk. I’m the perfect demographic for it. Like a lot of women, I’m scared to know, but if there’s a possibility I could detect it, I’d want to.” It’s a message Manley-Theobold is taking to the streets as well, as Ovarian Cancer Canada’s spokesperson for the seventh annual Winners Walk of Hope, which will take place in 14 cities across the country on September 13 as part of Ovarian Cancer Month. “This is our single largest fundraising even for us,” says Karen CinqMars, Ovarian Canada Canada’s national director of marketing and communications. “This fundraising drive is critical for us.” But for Manley-Theobold’s, who will appear at Winners Merivale this Thursday and in Orleans on Saturday, August 22, it’s much more personal than that.

Posted in Wellness on 08/21/2009 - 0 Comments

Forget the knife: Non-surgical face lifts

“Put your face in the box.” I don’t mind admitting it, but I hesitated for a second. The box was actually a computerized digital camera called the Visia, which measures how crepey your skin is, counts your wrinkles, spots and pores and then, to complete your joy, compares how you’re aging next to 100 other women of your vintage.

Posted in Skin health on 12/04/2008 - 0 Comments