There once were three lovely ladies from all different walks of life that came up and stepped right in to help and support me without every looking back. To you Teri, Dawn and P, I have no words to say thank you....from the Doctor appointments and treatements, to the hospital tests, to the daily lunches, the trip to buy me head wraps, to the groceries, dinners, family get togethers, to the phone calls, and Dawnie's big tears I could not have done it without you guys!

I am s...

As with any health condition of any seriousness one has to get several opinions and that was what I did first. When the Radiology Center called me and advised of my malignant diagnosis, I immediately had my Doctor set me up with a local surgeon and at the same time I made my own appointment at Duke University.

At that time with all the anxiety and fear that I was experiencing Jordan and I visited the first Surgeon, who was wonderful and spent so much time with us he was a trooper. He ...

It's so easy to get away from our faith and easier to find excuses as to why we can't make it to Church or some religious celebration. Well while living in Miami I was a very committed Catholic, Mass on Sunday's, Eucharistic Minister and made sure my son would attend all his religious events. Then we moved to North Carolina and somehow got away from the usual routines of my Sunday Mass, and other religious involvements.

Well I have to tell you that as soon as you get some not so good...

The beginning

It took a bit of time for me to actually decide to talk about December 16, 2008 the day that changed my life forever. I still remember with melancholy how I felt that morning, I was waiting for my biopsy results to come in and my husband was deploying overseas for a year. Of course at that time my melancholy was mainly my husband Dave's deployment, little did I know that to add to that was the soon to come news from my Doctor's office. For those of you that do not know...

All along there have been very special people that have been there with me since the beginning and in my own special way I want to mention them. When I came to North Carolina I meet a very special lady and her husband my very, very dear friends Anna and Bob. Anna and I hit it off immediately both of us being transplants we had lots and lots of things in common. As with most of us that work, have families, we tend to sometimes spend time without seeing each other....yes we both sometimes d...