When I learned I had breast cancer, I felt as though I was not going to come out of this alive. I thought that my life was over and that my children would grow up without a mother. As the smoke cleared from all of the shock and confusion I was feeling, I dug into research and found some information that I was not expecting to find.

During the last 10 years prior to my diagnosis, I had let things slip in my life. I had always been somewhat health conscious and kept myself in good shape. I ha...