Pink Ribbon Awareness White Lamp Work Glass Heart Earrings Antique Silver-Tone

Show your support! White 14mm (5/8") glass heart with pink ribbon is surrounded by Austrian Swarovski pink crystal. Earrings are 1-1/2" (38 mm) long from the top of the lead-free nickel-free antique silver-tone ear wires. The last picture shows the matching necklace, available for separate purchase in this shop. Meredithbead shop has several styles of pink ribbon earrings, matching bracelets, necklaces, key chains, cell phone charms and stick pins. * * * * * May 19, 1998, two days before my 48th birthday, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. In the seconds it took for my doctor to say the word "cancer," my entire universe crashed. I went through 11 months of multiple surgeries, chemotherapy and radiation. Life was hell, and hell was life. Eighteen years later, I battled it again. I'm back in remission, and every day I'm grateful to be alive. In 1953, my mother's sister died at the age of 36 from breast cancer. Back in those days, people whispered the word "cancer" if they said it at all. "Breast cancer" was just not mentioned, period. Now we shout it, we march for it, we pledge our money to cure it. We make noise and demand more research. We will not be silenced by an "embarrassing" disease. I wear my pink ribbon jewelry proudly -- in support of 1 in 8 women who will be diagnosed with breast cancer; to raise awareness; and to say "I will survive." May you survive and thrive as well. P.S. --- if you're a woman, please get regular mammograms and do your monthly self-exam. I discovered my lump one month after a "healthy" mammogram. It can happen to anyone.