Two Women ~ 1 Disease

<p>When my mother/best friend was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer we<br />thought our lives were over. My mother always insisted that she would NEVER<br />endure the torture her Grandmother who had been diagnosed back in the<br />1970's had experienced. Through gentle persuasion we convinced her that<br />treatment had changed drastically since then and she decided to fight.</p><p>Fight it she did and was cancer free . . . until she was diagnosed with a second<br />primary cancer - pancreatic which had already metastasized to her liver.<br />According to the doctors this was very rare. They gave her three to five<br />months to survive and called upon Hospice. She fought hard and in fact beat<br />the odds given to her. She was a real champ who did not want to leave her<br />daughter behind.</p>