Susan G. Komen for the Cure!
Can I just tell you how amazingly talented my girlfriends are? Unique, artistic, business savvy, creative, completely passionate busy people they are-and moms to top it all off! Meg, Rosemary and Reagan are a few that have spearheaded a Positively Pink campaign in Hartsville (in honor of yours truly) to raise money solely for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation! And if you don’t know about the Susan G. Komen Foundation…
(From Komen.com: Susan G. Komen Foundation is the global leader of the breast cancer movement, having invested more than $1.9 billion since inception in 1982. As the world’s largest grassroots network of breast cancer survivors and activists, we’re working together to save lives, empower people, ensure quality care for all and energize science to find the cures. Thanks to events like the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure® and the Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure®, and generous contributions from our partners, sponsors and fellow supporters, we have become the largest source of nonprofit funds dedicated to the fight against breast cancer in the world.)
If you have been living under a rock and don’t know that October is National Breast Cancer Awareness month, you really should get out more. In August, Meg, owner of Juice Haute Kids Couture, creative fashionista extraordinaire and mom of three adorable girls, declared her first marathon would be in honor of me, as I was newly diagnosed with breast cancer. If you know Meg, you know she goes big or goes home. From that one gesture, which has snowballed, she has made it her mission to raise awareness and raise funds for the Susan G. Komen Foundation with quite a lofty and very pinkalicous goal. As soon as she gathered her team of girls, they quickly got to work creating the Positively Pink campaign which will hit the streets of Hartsville soon. (I can’t wait to buy a t-shirt!)
Each and every penny raised will be donated to the Susan G. Komen Foundation.
Notice the half pink heart? Didn’t I tell you I have amazing friends?
4 Comments
Shannon on September 10th, 2011
That is so awesome!! You’ll have to let us know about the shirts. I’d love to have one for myself and my mom. She’s a breast cancer survivor…5 years and counting. 🙂
Happy Heart on September 11th, 2011
These are awesome!! You have some talented friends. Please let us know if we can order one on line.
Your in great hands with Dr Butler. I am a RN and used to work in Cola town, when we lived there
Paige on September 12th, 2011
I just wanted to take a quick minute to let you know that you have become one of my heroes. You do not know me but I have read your blog about your girls from time to time and can not help but laugh because they sound a lot like my two girls (6 1/2 and 4 1/2). I also have had cancer-melanoma- 1st diagnosed at age 27 and then again at 29. It is hard to hear and accept that you have cancer. I think about it quite frequently, but I have come to the realization that I have so much more to live for and do that dwelling on it will not do me nor anyone else any good. Your strength, devoted and caring spirit, and positive attitude about your family and now about yourself should be an example to us all. You and your family have been on my mind and heart the last few weeks. I hope and pray that as you go through this difficult time that God grants you healing and peace.
Paige Storm
Terri Woodham on September 10th, 2011
Wonderful idea! Truly amazing friends to put the time and energy to do this; for a great cause and in honor of another positively amazing young lady!
Love you, Mom