"'previvor'day"?

September represents cancer awareness. This month is set aside to recognize all the people who fought through blood, tears and sweat to rid their cancer. Some won the battle and some fought until they could no longer fight. Those who moved onto a better place with forever remain in our hearts and memories. We are so proud of those who beat the grueling beast. We are also fortunate for those beautiful people because without them we would have never discovered such things as genetic mutations.

We are fortunate, though, because, unlike them, we will never have to experience the disease that attempts to devour the human body in its relentless manner. We're fortunate because we've been given the gift of knowing. Without that gift, some of us would be thrown into the fight. Some would lose and some would win. But, we're lucky because we do know this information and because of that we get to help ourselves out to prevent having to go through what our loved ones had to. There's no other way to say it. We who know we're BRCA Positive were given a gift; a gift I am grateful for each and everyday. 

Although I am grateful for this gift, I find myself wanting to distance from this group of people who refer to themselves as 'previvors'.