I've always been a pretty nice person, and considered a good mother and wife. During this year my diagnosis of cancer has made me even more considerate of people, more patient. And being a mother has taken on a whole new meaning for me. We all think we talk to and spend time with our kids, but after a "safety shattering" experience such as cancer, our talks and interaction have taken on a depth I don't believe we would have found without this disease. I am CLOSER with my children and husband now, yet a year ago before my diagnosis I would have argued everyone that no mother was closer to her children then I was. I was wrong. Mothers and fathers with cancer are closer to their children then mothers and fathers that never experience cancer. So, I will continue to thumb my nose at the cancer (with my fingers crossed behind my back of course) and take any good it might throw my way........I turn the tables on the demon and laugh in it's face! Well, little exaggeration there............it still scares the CRAP out of me but I don't cower in front of it anymore. Thats a giant step!