Tuesday, January 13, 2009

The News

Telling adults I had been diagnosed with breast cancer was easy.  Telling my children was different.  How do you tell your kids that you have a disease that kills thousands of women every year?  How do you tell them that there is really no cure for what you have? In a period of just a day or two, I had been handed the biggest “teachable moment” of my life... 

When unfortunate circumstances happen, you have choices.  You can curl up in a ball and quit, feeling sorry for yourself, or you can accept what has happened and fight.  My choice, of course, was to fight!

"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."

Hugh Downs

 

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