“Happy Heading into My 20th Year to Me”!

This is the week the transition happened.  October 16th, 1993 was the day I had the mammogram that dropped me head first into the world of pink ribbons.

I spent a lot of time falling before I learned how to fly.  It was almost as if I landed on a huge cushion of pink balloons and bounced back up into the air head first and this time I landed in a field of pink bubble wrap.  I spent a while popping all those little air pockets before emerging and and trying to shake it all off.

I wanted no more pink – I wanted to turn my back on it, forget it, pretend it never happened and get on with my life.

Life had different ideas and no matter how many times I tried to leave it behind, everywhere I went I could look back and see little pink plastic pieces of bubble wrap trailing behind me.

I always tell the people I meet that for a long time breast cancer kept nipping at my heels and it pinched.  One day I decided to open my mind, my body and my spirit and  allow it to come back to me and reside in my heart.  I know with every heartbeat I am where I belong.

Love and peace,

Carole