Pink Week

UPDATE :: October 30 :: I’m excited to tell you my entry made i heart faces‘ Pink Week top 10! To see who else caught judge Dana Puhg‘s artistic eye, check out this post.
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i heart faces is hosting a Pink Week photo challenge. I’m a bit sensitive about Breast Cancer Awareness month. Every October we are inundated with pink. For me it’s a constant reminder of my own family history. I am still angry about the impact cancer has had on my life and the lives of the people I love most. In honor of our open wounds, I’m including a song from the late comic genius, Gilda Radner (sung to the tune of Beverly Hillbillies). Gilda died in 1989 after a long battle with ovarian cancer.

no little cancer cells
are hiding inside of me

but if I find a cancer cell
just trying to hang on

I’ll smash and beat it’s fucking head
until it’s dead and gone!

So with a bit of reluctance, I’m including my pink photo.
It represents prevention and female fortitude.
Now, go forth, be healthy and fight, fight, fight!

As I re-read this post, I realize it may sound like I had cancer.
Thankfully, I have never had it and with awareness and prevention, I hope I never will.