[Laurel]

Flori, sometimes when the going gets ridiculously tough I find looking back on where one has been helps to put it all in perspective. Cancer sucks. NO ONE knows that more viscerally than you. Still, you have hung in the ring not being KO'd by a dirty foe, her2, that never fights fair and chases its opponents all around the ring. Unrelentingly. But you? You have managed to to go to school & earn a degree, be there for family milestones, assist others in their fights, and piss in cancer's face (hard to do without a male appendage, but i digress). You have LIVED beneath cancer's shadow and if it means anything, Flori, I am in awe of you. Feeling that this is insult to injury is very human. I will pray that you tolerate this newest affront to your body and righteous indignation well with no nausea or G.I irritation.

In your corner, I am,