Sometimes, the things that inspire us aren’t always the most pleasant. On this day, I am reminded that the same breast I suckled on for nourishment is threatened for destruction by the merciless cancer cells.
My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer sometime in 2008. Before the fateful day the deadly disease was named, mom had been tortured with the symptoms for a while but we had ignorantly found solutions to individual threats not knowing they all had a singular source- the pink Cancer cells.
The sad thing is that, as it was with mom, most people decide to visit the doctor when it had gotten too late to salvage the breast. Next, to keep the woman alive, the breast has to be cut off after series of chemotherapy and other forms of treatment with countless drugs included.
The core essence of this graphic body art include thus;
- I hope that one woman will make sure she checks her breast today because an early detection can save that breast.
- I hope that one man will remind his woman to check herself today too
- I hope that just one woman will not take any symptom despite its seemingly irrelevant nuisance, symptom, sign or appearance for granted.
- I hope that one woman suffering this may find hope and somehow happiness in her very existence.
- I hope that just one woman may learn to live life normally despite the tragedy of the loss of one breast.
- I hope that this year’s February 4th counts for every cancer patient around the globe.
