With the beginning of October being here I find it hard to fathom that we have been in 2010 for 10 months now. Where has this year gone? As I sit here and write this update for the B3Fight, I am also thinking about the recent items I have seen in all the stores that promote Breast Cancer Awareness for the month of October. It is pretty cool to see how the marketing of these items has hit the shelves in different shapes and forms (no pun intended). When I was at Joanne Fabrics a week or so ago, I saw even a pink measuring tape and scissors that sported the pink ribbon (the avid seamstress that I am). Up until this year, I probably would not have noticed it as much as I have in 2010.
Even the Dannon yogurt container that I open every morning for my breakfast sports a pink ribbon. Today I went onto their website where you can put in your code from the cap to donate to The National Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc. To some it may only seem like a waste of time to get 10 cents donated to finding the cure. To others, it's like donating a million bucks because it is helping to find the cure for just one human being.
To those who's lives have been touched by breast cancer the symbol represents something bigger. Maybe your mom, your aunt, your sister-in-law, even an uncle (men do get breast cancer too) have been touched by it.
Me, I am just one in the sea of many who have been there done that and still doing it. The pink ribbon does symbolize that life can go on thanks to those that support it. I am thankful everyday for the chemo, the drugs, and the researchers. I stand here today, because God gave the medical field the means to save lives and continue to find the cure.
Pink, never would have chosen it as a color for me. My favorite color is blue, but I sport pink and it's because this is what I have been called to do for now. Are you wearing your ribbon this month? I am.
