Joybell & Art, thanks for your kind thoughts. Joybell that was surely a courageous step you took. If positions were reversed, I don't know if I would have the guts to do that. That decision is colored by many factors including age & marital status.

When I found out that there was no cancer the first time 2 years after the fact, the first emotion was a sense of hurt & bewilderment. How does this happen? Then some anger-not the hot rage one hears about. With the second masectomy-my feeling was-okay this time I know I have cancer & the little gremlins are starting to run amok. There was a certain joy when it was over. We shall see how far the little creeps traveled.

We all have to die of something. I'd like it to be when I'm sound asleep on satin sheets with a few oreos & a glass of milk in my tummy. Keep your fingers crossed.