Pinktober Revolution

That is so funny, Mini! I'm on board with you! When is testicular and prostate cancer awareness month? I move we decorate blue jock straps and wear them!!!

Just when we thought it was over at least for a year - and the pink merchandise has been discounted and discounted again, this pops up - it will never be over, it will follow us to our graves, literally. Pink Blazers for the funeral industry. aaarghh!!

https://www.wearthepink.com/

Went and got my Tamoxifen refill today. The bottle cap is pink with a ribbon. Says "Early detection saves lives." Pfft, I don't wanna hear it.

That is just wrong.

I thought this shit would be over by now.....it's Nov.and it's Pancreatic cancer month

WEAR PURPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh Kathi I am thinking the powers that be are sacrificing sensitivity for the greater good...

???????

(She says gritting her teeth)

The cancer center/hospital I received my care has sent 2 solicitations for a donation......could I get to my year before asking. Wasn't even 3 months out of surgery.

Just shaking my head.

Maybe I'll give back someday but let me heal first. Ha ha

I was diagnosed during foctober. I used to like pink. Now whenever I see it, I want to vomit! Bleck!

Just found this out. Vera Bradley makes huge donations to BC. Seems a woman who worked for them died of the disease. They started a fund in her honor. You can check it out on their website. One pattern in particular is dedicated to BC. It is called....Ribbons...hugs

Vera Bradley had nothing to do with Komen. My daughter walked for years, till I found out the true facts and told her. She stopped that year. It cost her $2,000 in donations to be able to walk. A joke.



Vera Bradley is entirely different. Read their website.

I use stop pimpin' the pink a lot. Red ribbons are already being used for heart disease and AIDS awareness. Unfortunately, whatever the color someone will exploit it for their own purposes. I don't dislike pink as a color, just its exploitation. If anything it should be an ugly color. An ugly color for an ugly disease, not something pink and girly. Or maybe camoflage, to point out the way people hide behind a charity in the name of "awareness," and the way we, the ones with the disease, are relagated to the background. Susan Koman and the like have turned our voices into white noise.

Could we also just bombard the komen people letting them know howwe feel about theway they use the money.

Happy new year everyone....Any color but pink is fine!!!!!!!!

Lets wait till the new years is over then we can put our heads together and do something for the new year.

Lets make 2013 the best every...hugggggs everyone Grannydukes

I was just thinking of this page the other day and how I hadn't been here in awhile. I too had a mini rant the other day.

I had an eye doctor appt at the mall and to kill time I went into Rue 21. I was looking at some clearance t-shirts and saw several that were BC themed. Most weren't too bad. White with something to the effect of Live, Love, Cure, and things along that line in various colors; nothing obnoxiously BC/pink ribbon like a lot of them. Then I picked one up that had two strategically placed owls and the phrase "Save the Hooters." I was livid. I went to the sales clerk and told her that someone needs to tell their buyer that that t-shirt was beyond tacky and offensive. I told her I have breast cancer and saving the hooters is low on my list of priorities. I care about saving my life and a shirt with two owls where my hooters are supposed to be isn't going to do that. I also told her that I had planned on buying a few things but due to that disgusting shirt I would be buying NOTHING. Grrrr

It will be a year next month that I was diagnosed (hard to believe) and I thought I had cried all my tears, so no one was more surprised than me to find tears in my eyes when I gave that sales clerk that shirt. And Ducky you are right, they won't know.

You know I have yet to see a Save the Gonads or Save the Boys for testicular cancer. Or Save your Ass for rectal cancer, or Save your Va-jay jay. But get breast cancer and your hooters, ta-tas, girls, etc., are on everything!

Ducky, thank you for your last post.  I found myself wanting to cry for no reason a while back and when I saw my surgeon he reminded me that I had every right to be emotional because I had lost two body parts.  I have been wondering what will happen when I hit the year mark.  I follow several of the discussion boards and have learned so much from all the ladies here.  My husband who was very supportive during diagnosis and surgery just doesn't understand the residual effect that breast cancer has on you.  I'm so glad to read that what I am going through is normal.