Cathy’s story

Breast cancer was detected at an early stage and is the PRIMARY reason why I am alive today!

Why Did My Mother Die from Breast Cancer?

…no one should skip mammograms or other tests, including self examinations, as doing so can greatly reduce one’s life and the quality of one’s life.

Why “I Have This Little Garden”?

It is our hope… all who help tell their own stories here, those that share ways they kept some of the side effects of treatment to a minimum, those that spend hours reading to their own loved ones stories from this site when it no longer becomes visible to them and those that translate this site into other languages, that this site might bring some meaning and hope to those dealing with any kind of cancer, their families, their friends and their co-workers.