Rosie's Victories

This picture of a rose named "Hot Pink"
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I have one life to live.

I am determined to live to the fullest.
The big “C” isn’t slowing me down.
Breast cancer is serious
    and so is being a wife,
    mother, and friend.
I am rocking HOT PINK.
I am fighting like a GIRL.

October is National Breast Cancer Month.  On October 1, I took my poem from a feature called “Life’s Victories” an Orlando Sentinel feature that highlighted the story of one breast cancer survivor each day.  Today on this last day of National Breast Cancer month, I choose to close the month with another poem about a breast cancer survivor.

 

© 2012 Catherine Giordano

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Life's Victories

Age 44.
A lump in my breast.

Diagnosis.

Stage 0 breast cancer.

Emotional tears.
Shock.  Disbelief.

Treatment:

Mastectomy, chemotherapy.
On course to defeat the enemy.

Fast forward ten years.

A lump in my right chest wall.
Stage 4 cancer.

Aggressive treatment.

Gratefully and joyfully
surviving and thriving.

In remission today.
 
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness month. 

© 2012 Catherine Giordano                

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