The Chronicles Of Nay

Hello! Happy October!!! I hope that everyone is having a great week! I swear I woke up Friday tired today and it was only Wednesday! We are still learning about force in science class. We get to the rough part where now we are actually calculating Net Force!

There are some new people here so let me catch you up. My mom and I have worn pink for the month of October for 16 years to honor a very special woman in our lives, My grandma Cordy. If you have “heard” this story no hard feelings if you skip down to beyond the excerpt from another blog. Or you can read it again and get a little chill because I know the story and it still gives me a little chill!

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! We later joked that Cancer got tired of trying to kill her so it just started to leave! When the doctor 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 she 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 2008. 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.

My grandma hated to take pictures so I don’t have many of her but this is one the last ones I have of her! I love it! she was working on the crossword puzzle when I snapped it!

The first October after she passed my mom and I started wearing pink. I have roped a few people in to it too along the way! haha Our campus wears pink on Wednesdays becuase there are so many people that Cancer has affected, some on our campus. I wear pink for my grandma! If you know someone that has battled breast cancer I suggest wearing a little pink this month in honor of them! And because it is breast cancer awareness month: Let me do my obligitory statement of: go get a mammogram!

I have been making a habit of staying up late to write blogs. I have a good one in the making that I will probably post Friday! There is a lot of content this week! But for now I am going to go to bed!