Rink Ribbons ~ Walmart Says NO to Pink Hair!

Pink Ribbons is a feature series I have started that is posted every Thursday.  I am a Pink Ribbon Warrior, having gone through the chemo, surgery, radiation, the year of waiting and recently stage 2 reconstruction...which I find is really the first of many little surgeries.  I am at a place in my life where I am willing to open my journal from that time and share with you my anger, fears, challenges and pain of finding out you have cancer.   This is me sharing with you from the other side of breast cancer.

 
These are not current events, events are from Sept. 2010

Dear Rosey,

The girl that works with me in the tour office came in with a pink stripe in her hair. It's a weave and it's all pink. Her salon is charging $10 to have it done and 1/2 of the proceeds are going to a foundation for breast cancer research.

Is that not the coolest thing!! Seriously thinking about having it done. I know Brooke will want to. (only because it's cool) LOL

Rosey, if I have it done it will be for YOU!

 Dawn

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Linderlou - I think I'll stick with wearing my pink bracelet on Rosey's behalf. But if that's what you and your DD want to do, go for it.  

abreakfromlife - you should!  it's not like you'll have many other chances to experience a hair-do like that in life!  

Girls,

Sounds like outrageous fun too! I have considered buying pink hair spray and spraying my scalp for my last chemo tx. Until K pointed out no one would know unless I exposed my head. Well it's to cold to consider that even if I was brave enough.

I guess I could do it to my wig! I'm getting wig catalogues that have cool wigs like that already done...pink or red weaves.  (I DID spray my wig pink for my Oct. 1 chemo and nearly caused a pink riot in the chemo clinic!)

Last weekend my nephew Michael marched in a homecoming parade dressed as a pink fire fighter. He was harassed for being pink (mike is very buff now) until he told them that it was in honor of his aunt Rosey. sniff

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I thought I'd hate doing this cancer stuff during October. I friend told me she felt like she couldn't get away from being slapped in the face with reminders. But its giving me an ooo rah spirit! I love hearing pink stories or other things like this. I think my friend was just weird. People I talk to at the cancer center all love it too.

So streak your pink!

You know I told my sister about this. She asked her hairdresser about it and they showed her a pink weave they could use. She just wanted to wear it this week. Walmart told her no. She works in the warehouse in receiving. Mom and I both have or had breast cancer and tomorrow is our birthday. So she was going to wear it this week in our honor. Walmart told her it was too radical.

Yeah you know Walmart...that place with the really high class general employee base? Lmbo 

(Walmart said no???)    

But this disappointed her because she thought breast cancer awareness, my birthday and two in her family having breast cancer should give her the right to have a pink strand of hair.   I guess not.

Speaking of hair...

Yes that was me, squatted down in front of this Kohls Breast cancer awareness display...busting a gut at the irony.