PINK NOW

Only a few people close to me have been diagnosed withbreast cancer. My grandma was diagnosed when I was little and my best friendhad to have a lump removed before I met her. But both of them are cancer freetoday. Even with these experiences I cannot imagine what it is like find out Ihave a cancer growing inside my body. Breast cancer is not a consequence ofbeing unhealthy or purposefully damaging your body. Its not like skin cancer,where most likely you were out in the sun too much or laid in a tanning bed.Breast cancer is not like lung cancer, where most likely you smoked too manycigarettes. It attacks generations of women for no known reason, and that’s whyit scares me so much. There is not anything you can do to prevent it or cureit. The only thing you can do is catch it early enough to get it out. That’swhy it’s so important to get yourself checked out consistently. Last yearalone, over 40,000 people died of breast cancer, and over 190,000 people werediagnosed with breast cancer for the first time. This is so many people! It hasme wondering if this year, one of those people could be me, or someone close tome. 

In all this darkness there is a glimmer of hope and that isthe Susan G. Komen Foundation. Since their start in 1982 they have raised $1.5billion for the care of people and the cure of breast cancer. But they do somuch more than raise funds for research. The Susan G. Komen foundation is anetwork of hundreds of thousands of breast cancer patients, survivors andactivists who all work together to ensure quality care, empower people, savelives and energize science to find the cure. It is a support system forthousands whose lives have been forever changed by this horrible disease. OnOctober 29^th -31^st in Tampa, Florida, the Susan G. KomenFoundation is holding a 3-day walk for the cure. It is a 60-mile walk for womenand men who want to make a difference in the fight against breast cancer. Duringthe 3 days and 60 miles the participants raise millions of dollars, whilemeeting hundreds of woman and men from around the country, all who have storiesof their own lives to share. You can come join us for these three days and helpgive hundreds of thousands of lives hope for a future! LOVE ALWAYS HOPES (ICorinthians 13:7)

Live the Life is starting a campaign to raise money forbreast cancer research called PINK NOW! You can view the PINK NOW shirt belowand buy it soon! When you buy a PINK NOW shirt you will get a free PINK NOWwristband. The best part is that for every shirt sold through the www.ilivethelife.com website, $5 will be donated to the Susan G. Komen Foundation. Contact Rachel Brownell at rachel@ilivethelife.com to find outhow you can donate to the Susan G. Komen Foundation, support the Live the Lifeteam for the 3 day walk, or join the Live the Life team in Tampa, Fl thisOctober. 

- Rachel