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squidwitch42
squidwitch42 Member Posts: 2,228
edited June 2014 in Life After Breast Cancer

I was diagnosed October 2, 2009, and so my one year is coming up.  I hear many people who object to the pink and I have heard the reasons.  I just wanted to respectfully say, that I am empowered by my pink, I loved the color before, and I am glad for the awareness. I remember the fabulous men women and children marching through NW DC in their pink...dancing, music loud, arm in arm, showing the face of breast cancer.  I ran towards these ladies, holding up my pink phone cheering them on, getting hugs when I told a few women I was having my mastectomy the following week. I cried too...it was extraordinarily emotional for me.

The Social Worker at the Breast Care Center saw me buying a fight like a girl T-shirt after I found out how big they thought my tumor was (5 by 5 by 5,) and was joking with my friend about all of the women who tell her they are sick of the pink.  She started to joke with me too...yet I wasn't there.  I stuck my chin out and said, well it's new to me, so I think it's great! 

So I may be in the minority, but I wanted to shout it to the rooftops that I have made it through my first year!   I look great in pink, and BRING ON THE PINK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Thanks for hearing my pink viewpoint :)

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  • iodine
    iodine Member Posts: 4,289
    edited September 2010

    We respect your viewpoint!

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  • squidwitch42
    squidwitch42 Member Posts: 2,228
    edited September 2010

    Thanks Iodine..I think I may be in the minority, but I guess there is room for all?  :)

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  • pickle
    pickle Member Posts: 1,409
    edited August 2013

    I embrace the pink... with hope...hope that we will beat this disease and give my daughter and future grandchildren a future without BC. Personally I have never liked the color pink...never wore a pink thing in my life  but I look at it now and feel like the pink ribbons have contributed to awareness which contrbutes to early detection.....and new treatments for all of us. I realize and acknowledge that we haven't come far enough but the pink ribbon raises alot of money for research that I TRULY BELIEVE will help in finding a CURE.

    Hugs

    Beth P

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  • squidwitch42
    squidwitch42 Member Posts: 2,228
    edited September 2010

    Love it, a future without BC.  If we think it, we can achieve it.  I am listening to Housewives of DC, and in this episode, they are attending the Men Against Breast Cancer Gala.  I hadn't even heard of this.  A call to arms on how men can take care of the women they love.  Now that's pretty wonderful. Awareness, detection and early treatment!

    Hugs back at ya,

    Traci

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  • spendygirl
    spendygirl Member Posts: 231
    edited September 2010

    Squid, I've always loved pink.  I wear pink, I have a pink laptop, pink sneakers, lots of pink.  Now with all the pink ribbon gifts I've received, pink is everywhere!  I remember before I had cancer I actually was driving down a long road and there were groups and groups and groups of women in pink doing the Komen walk (I have goose bumps as I type this).  I cried and cried, sobbed!  I don't know why it moved me so much, but it did. 

    So I'm with ya, at least for now I'm not sick of the pnk yet.

    Hugs, Tracye

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  • squidwitch42
    squidwitch42 Member Posts: 2,228
    edited September 2010

    Tracye,

    I know what you mean.  I did know my deal when I saw my first walk...but it was the camaraderie, the spirit, the bonding between the women that really struck me.  Yes, there were men there, but I felt their feminine spirit thenfold. I always loved pink before too....I have scrub tops in every shade :)

    Hugs back,

    Traci

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  • Rocket
    Rocket Member Posts: 1,197
    edited September 2010

    I too LOVE pink!  I always have and always will.  It seems like EVERY store I go into lately have products promoting bc awareness.  They are everywhere.  Has anyone else noticed this?  I pray for a cure from this dreadful disease soon.

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  • bourscheid
    bourscheid Member Posts: 718
    edited September 2010

    I too am empowered by the pink!  We even have Pink Day every Thursday at my school to give me support!

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  • squidwitch42
    squidwitch42 Member Posts: 2,228
    edited September 2010

    bourscheid,

    Do you really?  That's the bees knees!

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  • iodine
    iodine Member Posts: 4,289
    edited September 2010

    I was dx'd on a Friday and the following Monday, before leaving for my bx, I brought in the mail.  I was stunned to find a request for donations to Komen.  I had never even heard of them, and this was 3 days after dx per mammo/us.  I actually believed that someone had given my name to them as a recent ! diagnosis.

    Of cours, when I found the boards I discovered that there was actually a month given over for awareness.  I am so far out that, even tho it used to bother me, esp. with pink TP, I don't get put out for or against it.  LOL

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