In October 2001 I moved from Georgia to Minnesota. I had just gone through a divorce after 25 years of marriage and had to drop my family cancer policy after having 25 years due to we were no longer married. My family said they did not understand why I moved so far away. I was still getting to know new people and places when I got sick and was diagonsed with breast cancer. Scary feeling being so far from family and friends. My siblings and I researched to see whether for me to come back to Georgia or stay in Minnesota for treatment. After researching we found that Minnesota was the second best breast cancer center in the United States and I knew I had to be strong and fight for my boys. When they informed me of my cancer, the doctor ask me if anyone in my family had the same type of breast cancer. I had to contact my mothers only living sister because I did not know, for you see my mother got killed in care wreck with my older two brothers wives at the same time.. I was very young and did not know my mothers family medical history. To my surprise my aunt informed me that my grandfather died with the same type breast cancer that I had. Upon returning to the doctor and informed him of that he told me that he had his suspicions that I had to inherrited this cancer. He said a womans chances of getting this were one in a million chances. I had a male breast cancer not a female. I was asked if I would sign for them to freeze my biopsy so that they could research it. I agreed . They also informed me that If I would agree for them to keep 24 hour monitoring on me and everything that they do for me just to see if all chemo and radiation treatments got the same results with this type cancer, and If I would do so they would cover all my charges accrued during the treatments. I also agreed for them to try new meds on me that they had never got anyone to agree to before. I was the one that agreed for them to put the medicine in Chemo to keep women from getting so nausea during treatments. I told them that if it did not work, it would not hurt me and maybe with agreeing to all this he may save one of my sons or granddaughter one day... I am a firm believer that whatever the Lord has in store for me will be. With knowing this I did everything in my power to fight this sickness leaving it in the Lords hands. I felt that the Lord sent me Minnesota to get the treatment that I did and having them to pay my charges after loosing my policy due to the divorce. The Lord works in mysterious ways. My family would fly up and stay weeks at the time with me... I had a lot of support from family and friends in both Georgia and Minnesota. Every couple of days I would receive cards and Angels in the mail. I even had a group of kids from a hometown prayer group, took a white prayer cloth and put in in a lockbox charm and sent it to me with a card stating that every Wednesday they were saying a prayer for me. When you receive things like that you know you have to fight. It is a lot of mind over matter, if you stay strong your chances of beating it are better than if you give up mentally and physically. I am proud to say that I have been Cancer Free and March 2011 will be 11 years.