The Chronicles Of Nay

Happy Sunday! I hope that everyone is having a good weekend! I have so much I should be doing but today is the first day of October and you know what that means. The month of pink! It is pretty crazy to think that she has been gone that long or that we have been doing this that long! So I thought that I would make a little blog update! If you haven’t heard the story here is my reason for why I wear pink the whole month of October.

My Grandma was a pretty phenomenal woman! She taught me many things while I was growing up she taught me how to read a recipe, my mom isn’t particularly good at this! Haha She taught me how to cross stitch and embroider, she taught me when you “turn the beans off” on an electric stove you have to remove them from the heat! She showed me what it is like to love and trust the lord with all your heart. Why am I telling you this? Well my grandma knew she had breast cancer for 30 years and didn’t tell ANYONE! If you already “heard” this story I won’t take offense if you skip the rest of this paragraph but this is from a blog I wrote last year… here is the cliff notes version: in the fall of 2004 we became aware of the fact that something was wrong… my grandma had blood on the inside of her bras. When questioned about it she tried to blow it off and just kept giving vague and strange answers. Her staple answer was “you don’t wanna know” Once my mom and aunt got her to talk they discovered the secret she had been keeping for MANY years. They went to the doctor and my grandma revealed to the doctor that she was aware that she might have cancer 30 years before that day! The cancer was so far that it eaten away at her breasts and the blood from her bra was actually dead cancer cells that were leaving the body through some sort of open wound! When he asked her why she didn’t tell anyone her response (still makes me smile!) was “I didn’t have the time the energy or the money to be sick so I wasn’t sick! And between God and my Aloe Vera plant I knew I would be just fine!” she would go on to say that when she first found it my mom was a kid and she needed to see her grow up, then she did and had kids and she needed to see us grow up. The faith that she had in both God and her Aloe Vera is amazing! She just trusted that everything would be ok! She had a double mastectomy and did radiation therapy. She did the chemo shot and eventually she did actual chemo. We were fortunate enough to have her live with us during this time. I look back on it and I am amazed and astonished at her attitude toward it all! I guess you don’t live with cancer for 30 years with a shitty attitude about it! I mean when the doctor was talking to her about her mastectomy he asked her if she thought she would want reconstruction surgery and she said “pfff no! I’m all vieja (old)! What do I need boobs for anymore?!” She was a pretty funny lady! She passed away in December 2009. I guess you would say it was the cancer that eventually killed her. I would say more it was the treatments and the surgeries that did it.

So as a little honor to my grandma My mom and I wear pink the entire month of October. At school we wear pink on Wednesdays. One of my coworkers was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. She is going to try to do it too. (She has a pretty cool story too so If you want to check her out I recommend her blog: https://thesurvivingmomblog.wordpress.com/

My grandma HATED to take pictures! and this was a very old camera phone so that is why it is so blurry! haha So If you haven’t gone in for a mammogram recently maybe look in to that! I changed up my blog a little to represent the month! haha Let’s see if I like it! haha Well I should get to homework!