Never forget that, even if you don't know our names or faces, there are friends you haven't met yet who are praying for you!
I have never for a moment doubted that I will beat this thing. I didn't even ask the doctor my statistical chanced because what difference does it make? Fifty/fifty? I'm in the good fifty. One in ten thousand? I'm the one. This is just a crappy detour in my life for the next year.
I made a remark about rather dying from this than have anyone in my family do anything in my name that involved the Susan G Komen foundation. I was shocked to learn that this upset them terribly, this talk of dying. It never occured to me that I might (well, not in the next 50 years anyway) so I was surprised to discover they were afraid of it!