Not a Disease, but a Journey Breast Cancer - 1410 Words

My mom bought me a breast cancer awareness purse for my fifteenth birthday. I thought it was the ugliest thing I’d ever seen. It was black with white lettered sayings plastered all over it. Things like â€Å"cancer isn’t about living and dying, it’s about living until I die† and â€Å"fight like a girl.† The sayings didn’t mean anything to me, and neither did the purse. The only thing cute about it was the pink ribbon in the corner, but that wasn’t enough for me to flaunt it around everywhere. Cancer to me was a death sentence. If the doctor told you that you had cancer, you were going to die, it was that simple. Cancer was something that was never going to happen to me or to anyone I loved. It just didn’t happen that way. I guess you could say we, myself and my loved ones, were invincible. It didn’t take long though, for cancer to become a trip to the emergency room after my mom had severe back pain. Cancer was a pain, o ne that didn’t ever go away. Cancer was a heartless doctor explaining my mom’s expiration date. Two weeks, the doc said my mom would be lucky if she lived that long. Cancer had not only been in her breast, but in her bones, lung, liver, and skin as well. Cancer was a hospital room full of family. It was my mom with a huge smile plastered on her face despite hearing the horrid news. Cancer was her telling our entire family that it was the best day of her life, not because she was told she was going to die, but because she had her entire family there supporting her.Show MoreRelatedBreast Cancer : A Common And Potentially Fatal Form Of Cancer1504 Words   |  7 PagesBreast cancer is a common and potentially fatal form of cancer that affects both men and women. Different patients are given different types of treatment depending on their stage. There are also steps that people can take to not only detect, but also to prevent being affected by breast cancer. 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