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October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and, while I have not been directly affect by cancer in my life, I know people that have. I find it so very important to talk about cancer and to make it... to make it this thing that becomes less and less scary because when cancer becomes something that we are not so afraid of, we can find more ways to move from it. I know that sounds very Utopian-like, cancer does not just go away. There's so much therapy, for the disease itself and for those that have been emotionally affected by it.

I've had at least four different teachers with various types of cancer and some of my family members have had cancer and some of my friends have had cancer. And most of them are alive and some aren't. It's very scary that something as small as a tumor or a few cells can actually break your body completely down until there is nothing left but the memory of you. 

Please know that once upon a time, my grandmother bleached our dishes so that she wouldn't catch cancer from my great aunt who they ate dinner with and now we know that cancer is moving towards a cure. I'm going to include this video of a woman who struggles with cancer everyday but has never had it; it's quite long but you should watch it if you can. Know that having cancer is not the only way that you are impacted by cancer. And please pay attention to your body; know what is normal and what is not.

catch you later,

Karleigh

“I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of stomach cancer. I decided that nobody should suffer that much.” // Gertrude B. Elion