Show your support! 10mm lamp work glass flat round beads come in clear and white, and have a pink ribbon design. They're interspersed with Austrian crystal and sterling silver spacers. Ear wires are sterling silver shepherd/fish hooks. Length is 1-7/8" long (48mm.)<br><br>Meredithbead shop has several styles of pink ribbon earrings, matching bracelets, necklaces, key chains, cell phone charms and stick pins.<br><br> * * * * *<br><br>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.<br><br>I went through 11 months of multiple surgeries, chemotherapy and radiation. Life was hell, and hell was life.<br><br>Eighteen years later, I battled it again. I'm back in remission, and every day I'm grateful to be alive.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br> 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."<br><br>May you survive and thrive as well.<br><br>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.