:: Hope ::

I have HOPE.

hope that some day cancer will no longer be a feared word

hope that we wont need to wear ribbons to show the pain we have felt

hope that hair loss will only be associated with old age

hope that children and families will not be scared of the unknown

hope that everytime a "lump" is found in the future we don't immediately think the worst

hope that surgery is not something people will need to save their life

Putting poison and radiation through our bodies will be a thing of the past

we will wear pink because it's pretty- not because we want to show the cancer we have seen

 Untill that day...

Myself

my mother

my sister

my other sisters

my brother

my father

and everyone else close to our family

will look breast cancer in the face

and say

F@#! you!!

we will defeat you

we will do it with class

we will do it with the support of our loved ones

and we will fight you because we are tough

we are the Black's

we don't mess around

we get shit done

and we get it done right

Nobody is stronger than a woman raising four boys

running her husbands company

and dealing with the lifelong disease diabetes

NOBODY

and no one is more supportive than her crazy family

She has guardian angels

because she herself is an angel here on eath

so again I say

 F@#! you

breast cancer

we are going to kick your ass Black Family style.

It's time to get my game face on

I have a disease to fight

and a sister to love.