Comments on: Going for Gold in Pinktober

By: April

April — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 12:18:32 +0000

haha yeah I am an OVERSHARER of the worst kind! I can’t keep my mouth shut.

By: Jane

Jane — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:28:55 +0000

Wow, April, that’s amazing (and sad) that she managed to hide it from you. She probably would say I’m a nut job for sharing so much about our family’s journey. Glad you don’t take after her in that regard.

By: Jane

Jane — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:26:34 +0000

It is really complicated. And you make an excellent point about the contributing factors of heart disease and diabetes (as well as the problem of access to affordable care to prevent these conditions from worsening or happening at all).

Thank you for your contribution!!

By: Donna

Donna — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 10:34:59 +0000

I find the pinkwashing very difficult to cope with. The impact Komen and Avon have on fundraising for other cancers is part of it, but also the emphasis they place on just the disease, and not the other diseases that contribute and make survival harder for women (diabetes and heart disease, for example). And then I remember that in Boston, Black women are less likely to get breast cancer than white women, but more likely to die of it, and really need that funding that Komen and Avon provide, and then I remember that it’s all really complicated. In any case, I would rather give my small donation to your effort so I will join up!

By: April

April — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 00:36:05 +0000

I got my copy ordered! Can’t wait!

My mom is a two time breast cancer survivor that does not buy into or participate in the pink stuff at all. Not a single bit. She actually loathes it. She is a complicated person when it came to that. She never told me she even had cancer. She hid it from me both times once in middle school and once when I was in college. Didn’t want to “Burden” me.

Now you are thinking “Wow she must be a very self absorbed person to not notice her own mother was going through chemo and radiation.” Not really though because the woman hid everything. Her house was still spotless, she cooked, she did errands, she did not let a single thing slip. I don’t know how she did it. She might be a super hero. She never lost her hair.

So I don’t know. I think she has a hard time fitting in with other breast cancer survivors. She had zero support from anyone. Partly her own fault but I just doubt many people would have done that much for her so I guess that is why she never asked. It is very sad.

I think all cancers deserve the same recognition as breast cancer.