For more than 30 years, I had dreamed of living in China. In April, 2006 my husband, youngest daughter and I were just a couple of months away from fulfilling that dream, but a routine mammogram revealed a small lump in my left breast. It turned out to be cancerous, so I had surgery in May, 2006 to remove the lump, as well as some lymph nodes that also had traces of cancer. June through August were spent in chemotherapy, and I had radiation therapy September through November.
We left for China in January of 2007 and I'm still living here. That dream of living in China, along with God's sweet presence and the support of my family and friends, carried me through those months. I had something to live for and I wasn't going to let breast cancer stop me!
Chengdu, China