Set of 2 Pink Ribbon Breast Cancer Awareness Lamp Work Glass Hat or Lapel Stick Pins

Show your support! Fun and affordable, these pink ribbon awareness stick pins will go great on your hat, coat lapels, sweaters, or a cloth purse! They're fine for clothing like heavy cotton, but not recommended for lightweight materials such as silk or rayon. Lamp work glass flat round beads come in 11x13mm clear and 10mm white with a pink ribbon design. They're accented with Austrian Swarovski crystal. The last picture shows the 11x13mm clear bead, which you will get. Stick pins are 2-1/2" (64mm) long, in silver-tone or gold-tone. If you don't specify, the default is one each. Meredithbead shop has several different 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.