Thursday, October 14, 2010

Awareness Ribbons and Causes

I love awareness items. They prompt people to ask questions, they show support for a cause, and it brings the cause to the forefront.
There are several causes I support that have ribbons, and a few I support that dont have ribbons. I am trying to design ribbons for the ones that dont have one, but it's difficult to get them to the forefront.
Here are the ribbons I support:

Pink Ribbon Items
My grandmother had breast cancer and she survived. When she got breast cancer, she was 80 years old and she found it herself. She was diagnosed on September 11, 2001. She beat it and lived until April 2010, when she died of something completely different.

Teal Ribbon Items
This ribbon stands for many things, including all womens gynecological cancers. Two of my aunts, who are sisters, have been diagnosed with gynecological cancer. One has ovarian cancer and the other has uterine cancer. My Mom just had a hysterectomy because of possible cancer, but luckily it wasn't. There have been three hysterectomies in my family this year alone, so this is a real concern on mine and my sisters part. This is not a good thing, because it's genetic. We are becoming very prone to these types of cancers in my family, and especially on my mothers side. It's truly frightening.

Blue Ribbon Items

The Thin Blue Line for police officers killed in the line of duty. Police Officer deaths are something that should never happen.

Red Ribbon Items

Red for Firefighters killed while on duty. This is another thing that should never happen. Police and Firefighters fight to protect our lives and safety, and they put their lives on the line more often than people realize. They must be remembered.

Black
This one can stand for melanoma, POW-MIA, anti-gang violence, anti-terrorism, and trauma awareness. It can also stand for mourning either alone or with another wristband to signify mourning for a specific purpose:
Black and Pink: Mourning for a daughter, Mourning for a Breast Cancer Victim, Mourning for a Mother, Mourning for a baby
Black and Blue: Mourning for a son, Mourning for a father, Mourning for a baby, Mourning for a Police Officer, or Mourning for any other blue awareness item.
Black and Red: Mourning for a firefighter, etc.
You get the idea.

Here are the ones that dont have ribbons that I know of that I'm working on personal designs for:
Pituitary Tumors
Animal Abuse
Wolf Protection and Awareness
Religious Tolerance

There are others, but those are the main ones. I created a teal ribbon last night for my aunts who are fighting cancer, and it's a special ribbon that means alot to us. I'm hoping it will show them that we support them and that they are always in our prayers.
This has been an extremely rough year for my family and I, and it hasn't slowed down.
Five deaths, two close calls, five people fighting cancer- three family members and two co-workers (three are dying), and one benign but no less dangerous tumor diagnosis. All since late March. I feel at the moment like my entire family is dying and there's nothing we can do about it. My friends all seemed to have disappeared. I'm honestly not sure what to do, but we will survive. We Will Survive. That's our motto. ^_^

So, what Ribbons/Causes do you support?

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