Today is Halloween, so I’ve decided to say Boo…and now scare you with something totally different.

Reading Chelsie Girl’s post on cancer has inspired me to write my own post. Imitation, it’s the highest form of flattery.

Today is the last day of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Breast cancer is something that’s been a part of my family’s history long before I was introduced by a sperm to an egg. My grandmother’s oldest sister was dead by the age of 32 because of breast cancer. 20 years later her middle sister followed her oldest sister’s lead. And right around my grandmother’s 50th birthday, she too came face to face with the disease. She found the lump herself. Ironically, she had just returned from a visit to her neighborhood gynecologist, and he had found nothing. The visit inspired her to feel around some more, and that’s when she found what she found.

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