Now CANCER!?!?!?!

My mother died of breast cancer.

When I think of the three worst things that could happen to me personally at this stage in my life, they are:
Losing one of my children
Losing my husband (not necessarily in that order, but I had to put something first)
Fighting cancer

I was devastated when my husband was redeployed. If you are reading this, you have read the whining. Now a routine checkup reveals that I have breast cancer. I watched my mother die, and now I feel like I am dying inside. All of this at once. I feel very much alone even though everyone keeps telling me that I am not. I am the only one that will be feeling the pain....

I am terrified.

Someone gave me his poem, and I am going to think about it:

What Cancer Cannot Do

Cancer is so limited...
It cannot cripple love
It cannot shatter hope
It cannot corrode faith
It cannot destroy peace
It cannot kill friendship
It cannot suppress memories
It cannot silence courage
It cannot invade the soul
It cannot steal eternal life
It cannot conquer the spirit.

We will see...we will see.....