[Becky]

Thank you all for your love and support. Not surprisingly, my sister is like many of us - terrified of the unknown but as soon as she knew, she flew into action. She is seeing one surgeon right after she picks up her pathology on Wed and another surgeon on Thursday. Komen for the Cure is right there in Dallas (headquarters) and someone sat down with her immediately. Her "tumor" is so small (less than 5mm) that she will most likely only have lumpectomy and radiation but at least they took the time to clue her in on that the next pathology on the lumpectomy will look for clean margins and any invasive component so we talked about that alot yesterday. She is much better. We have all been there - not knowing what the biopsy says yet is worse than finding out, even if it is bad news. She is lucky like me to have a great husband who is at her side. So, I will go down to Dallas but I don't know if I will go for the surgery or during the 3rd or 4 th week of radiation (hopeful that is all it will be but I will keep you all posted). As I said before, she did not want to wait 9 days so she took my advice and kept calling. Therefore, she does not have that report yet that says if it is ER+ or PR+ yet. However, Komen said (and it probably is better received from Komen) that she really did herself a big, big favor by keeping up with her mammograms and to find this so small.

Love to you all for thinking of me during this hard time with our board and the loss of our dear Joe.