For over 2 years the very first thing I did every morning at work was to click on the Breast Cancer Site, read the stories of inspiration, and then click to fund mammograms. One morning this past February I clicked on with the poignant knowledge that I am now among this sisterhood in the battle against breast cancer. As a stroke survivor, I had long felt kinship with women who have struggled for their lives, and now my "family" has grown. The stories I have continued to read on this site have given me strength and hope every day and I am so very grateful. I am blessed, too, by my two sons, who keep me laughing and who count down the days of radiation with me as we clip links from the construction paper chain they made for Mother's Day. My heart goes out to all women who face the uncertainty, fear, and pain that this diagnosis brings. Yet I am reminded that God has not promised skies always blue, nor flower-strewn pathways all our lives through, but has promised strength for the day, rest for the labor, and light for the way.
KathyLongmeadow, MA
