Oct. 31: Breast Cancer Remembrance Day

EnglishMajor

Hi Ladies:

I think we should have a Breast Cancer Awareness Month closing ceremony. Here is my original message.

Breast Cancer Awareness Month is winding down. I'm relieved it's over with and glad that I succeeded in some small way of creating more awareness for metastatic breast cancer. I will start earlier next year and build on what I've learned.

But I've also decided to create my own holiday: Breast Cancer Remembrance Day. On Oct. 31, the final day of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, I will remember the friends and family I have lost to this disease. It's Sunday, so I will light a candle for them and say some prayers.

I will wear black, not for its funeral implications but for its simple dignity, a quality that has been sadly lacking these past 30 pink saturated days.

At 8:45 pm that night I will go outside with a flashlight. I'll think of the one in 8 U.S. women who will get breast cancer and the 45,000 who will die this year.

My eighth grade science teacher told us if you turned on a flashlight and pointed it toward the sky the photons leave the flashlight and they immediately start to spread out. Provided that they don't hit anything, each individual photon travels through space forever.

Time slows down as you approach the speed of light.

I'll think of those whose time was all too brief and I'll hope for brighter days ahead.

barbe1958

Very beautifully put Major....I've been crying for days and just can't snap out of it! Maybe getting rid of all the pink will help. I didn't do recon and one of the reasons is to remind people around me what I went through. I don't normally have to get into "awareness" issues and have even shown a couple ladies what a double mast looks like. One started to cry....

It's been a sad year with heavy losses on bco and I don't know if it's just because I'm 'meeting' more people or just the timing.

May your photons speed through space and only stop when an angel reaches out to grab the light...

squidwitch42

English Major,

I would like to join you tonight. May I ask you what corner of the States you are, to I can try and time it with you? I am EST. I realize the purpose is to do this in darkness, but thought I would try and coordinate with you.

Thanks,

traci

EnglishMajor

We are on CST here in IL...

Thanks!

squidwitch42

I will join you at 9:45 PM tonight. ( I almost panicked when I saw the time, and got the time zone thingy backwards.) I think you have the most beautiful tribute. I have been wearing my Breast cancer scarf for all to see the past few days...my tribute to all my Sisters and Brothers...so tonight is a very fitting tribute to those who lost their battle, but never their spirit.

squidwitch42

Flashlight at the ready, I have posted to see if some of my Sisters on another thread can join us, I am truly hoping we can have a few more people join us!