The Pink Ribbon

    The pink ribbon, one of the most well known images in the medical world.  For those who have no idea what this ribbon means or represents consider yourself lucky, but for most of us, including me, at least one of our friends or family members have had to deal with that pink ribbon.  When this ribbon pops up it represents breast cancer.  For the past six years of my grandma's life she has had to deal with the chemo and the doctors and the traveling that you have to undergo during treatments for breast cancer.  My aunt has also been suffering from this condition. The worst feeling in the world is knowing that one of your closest family members has cancer. At the same time it is a great feeling knowing that they fought through it and survived this terrible disease.
     The pink ribbon has been known in my family for at least six years.  First my grandma got diagnosed with breast cancer and had to get her hair all cut off and had to get a wig.  It was a sad day in my family to hear that my grandma may die from cancer just like her husband and my grandpa, who died from a different kind of cancer.  The next person that had breast cancer in my family was my aunt. Not long after she came back to Arkansas from California she had been diagnosed with it and since then both my grandma and aunt have over came the horrible disease. 
      When someone thinks about a pink ribbon some think about the month of October for breast cancer awareness month. Some think about just the cancer its self, but the people that have had people in their family die or get diagnosed with it then all you can think about, or at least all I can think about is my family members that have been through it and it makes me think about things like, what if I had cancer tomorrow?  Could I fight it or make it or would I die?  And I could only imagine the physical and mental pain that that individual that has cancer has to go through.  I am just happy that I have had survivors that I can look up to and be proud of and still get to see their beauty.  Every year ,in the month of October, I wear pink to show how lucky I am to have family members still here on this earth that has survived this horrible disease.