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Since I have had my own site, I have always displayed the pink ribbon of hope and I have a very personal reason why.  My mom, lost her 40 year fight with cancer in February 2008.  To me, my mom was one of the strongest people that I’ve ever met.  her first bout with cancer was just after I was born, she was diagnosed with uterine cancer.  Mom had surgery and continued to live her life as normal until around 1976 when she first diagnosed with lymphoma.  Mom did what she did best and she fought it, and won.

It seemed as if every 10 years like clockwork, mom’s cancer would reappear.  She began to get regular mammograms, and thankfully so.  In 1996, mom was diagnosed with breast cancer, did chemo and radiation in addition to the radical mastectomy she had on both sides.  That would have been enough to stop most women, but not my mom, she refused to “die of cancer”, she lived with cancer for quite some time after that.  When mom finally lost her fight in February 2008, mom had already made arrangements to donate her body to one of the local universities in hopes that they would be able to find something within her that would allow the medical profession to help someone else.

Shortly after mom passed away, I was laid off from my job and I had no insurance but my doctor wanted me to get a mammogram because of my family’s history with breast cancer.  I explained to my doctor that I didn’t have insurance at the time and I couldn’t afford the testing at the moment.  It was at that moment that my doctor wrote me a prescription for the testing and informed me that the Susan G. Komen foundation provide free testing to uninsured and under-insured people.  I knew that the Susan G. Komen provided lots of other services but that was one of which I was unaware.

At that moment, even though mom was gone, I did not want for her wish to help others to go with her, that is when we set up the Ethel Carter Brumfield memorial fund through the Susan G. Komen website.  We set a goal of $500.00 per year (as we begin to reach our goal, we will reevaluate) but we ask that people take a moment to give a minimum gift of $5.00 to the memorial fund.  All donations are tax deductible and they go directly to the Susan G. Komen foundation via online gift or by mailing their gift in.

Breast cancer does not just affect women, men are at risk of breast cancer as well.  Although I have great confidence in holistic medicine, not even that method is effective if one goes diagnosed.  So please give a gift, not for me or for her but for your friends and family, especially in this time where so many people are without health insurance and cannot afford testing.  Your gift is needed now, more than  ever.