I Don't Do Pink Things Except....

I don’t do pink things. I detest things where if you had breast cancer you are supposed to cover yourself in pink, including a few boas, etc. I don’t participate in them at all.

However, I have some breast cancer friends who started out with me on the Komen message boards back in 2007. When they screwed up the message boards, we all left and moved to Facebook where we have remained friends. A bunch of them in the Midwest started what they called BreastFest at a park in northern Indiana, near where some of them live.

Overtime, this has expanded to be an all day event at a local hotel. Last year I went on a road trip with a friend to go meet them all. They all wore pink because they ordered the t-shirt for last year. I didn’t. I wore a green t-shirt. I didn’t buy a t-shirt because I didn’t want one. I wish I had. I was going to order one this year. But we didn’t get to go.

My compatriot who did the driving and provided the car, is having the floors redone in her house so it didn’t work for her. She didn’t want to reschedule because it took long enough to talk her husband into the change in the first place. And I ended up having my knee surgery.

But I am going to miss them. Today they are meeting and will drink wine and eat ‘healthy’ food all day. Then it will be nap time before a big dinner. And they will play games – where I haven’t laughed as hard as I did since. And generally have fun.

I would wear pink for this group. Its a wonderful group of women. I will definitely go next year. Its too far for me to drive myself so I need my compatriot. Its a pain in the ass to fly to because its 3 hours from any airport and I don’t fly well anyway. And I would need to commit to being healthy enough to travel if I paid for plane tickets – this is why we drove last year because if we weren’t healthy we could bail and not lose money. We stayed at my brother’s house on the way out and the way back so other than gas money, we had no real expenses.

Anyway, I will miss the ladies this year and will wear pink for them next year when I am there.

Caroline’s Breast Cancer Blog