Introduction

Welcome family and friends to this blog.  I hope that this blog will provide an avenue for sharing and communicating information between our family members.  It is live 24/7 and and designed to have multiple authors, all of which can post and contribute anytime.  

On Monday, we learned that our mom was diagnosed with breast cancer.  Following a regular mammogram, the doctor identified a lump in one of her breasts that warrranted a biopsy be performed.  The lab results from the biopsy suggest that there are cancerous cells in the ducts and some area of the tissue of that breast (tumor sizing 1 1/2 to 2cm). 

The news is obvisously frightening news to all of us and we know that a challenging road lies ahead.  As there will be many questions, decisions, and challenges on her path to recovery, we, as a family, want to offer her all the support, wisdom and prayers we can. 

One of my ways of dealing with frightening situations is information gathering.  Much of the early information I have learned so far comes from the American Cancer Society (see link below).

http://www.cancer.org/docroot/lrn/lrn_0.asp