Yesterday, Jay and I sat on our deck without jackets relaxing in the sun. Today, the first day of spring, it's snowing. I guess that's just how life is, as long we're alive, we know it's going to change.

I want to tell everyone that right now, I'm not anxious about my surgery, but I am anxious about the follow-up procedures, radiation and chemo. However, my general practioner called us yesterday and reassured us that Naperville at Edward Cancer Center was definitely the place to be for the best treatment. We had asked the surgeon the same question and he assured us this was the place to be.

Edward Cancer Center is staffed by professionals who have worked and/or trained at the best hospitals in the Chicago area and are very skilled. Both my surgeon and general practioner as well as qualified friends, helped us choose an oncologist to match both my medical needs and my personality.

So far, my experience with Edward Hospital has been A+ with the kind, caring radiologist and staff in the mammography center and the kind, caring surgeon and his staff, as well as my general pratitioner who found the cancer.

I believe that if I had to have breast cancer, this is the right time and place for me to be to have it and be cured. I have my family, friends, medical support, all within five minutes or less by computer. Nice to have the computer age, too!

The best reassurance my surgeon keeps giving us is that "this breast cancer is NOT going to kill me, I'll be here until I'm 97". Stay tuned.

Think Spring!