September is ovarian cancer awareness month. October is breast cancer awareness. Straddling both months is Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Awareness week.
September 27th to October 3rd.
Throughout the last 2 years I have felt guided on this wild journey. A journey that started with a crazy move from Connecticut to Texas continued with finding out I was BRCA 1+ and then discovering stage 1 fallopian tube cancer.
While I'm very sure there is a higher power at work here. It has also made me incredibly aware of the power of my family and those that went before.
I acutely felt the loss of my grandmother and aunts taken way before their time. The birthdays, holidays, graduations, weddings...the lives they missed.
I feel so blessed to have the knowledge they did not.
So while we paint everything in teal and then in pink.
I often think of the fallen. I thank them for the knowledge that saved my life. I wished they'd lived longer. I wish I had known them.
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