You mean well, but better to be informed!

What a past couple days, my beautiful bride Valerie, my wife, my life long partner has a serious fight in front of her. She is going to grow old with me, she is going to help me spoil our grandchildren, we will beat this! I have faith, and I believe, but I also believe you cannot hide from the awful truths, this is not a nice disease. Three of the best doctor's in the world do not come rushing to your aid in ONE DAY if they thought "you will easily make it through this" (which is what it seems I am always telling Valerie) I am trying to be strong, I feel I have to be, but sitting here in front of an inanimate object I find it easier to share my inner fears. I do have faith we will make it through this.....it just won't be easy.
Some facts you may not know from www.youngsurvival.org:
Despite the prevailing opinion that young women don’t get breast cancer, the reality is that they can and they do. In fact, one in every 229 women between the ages of 30 and 39 will be diagnosed with breast cancer within the next 10 years. Following are some additional startling facts about breast cancer in young women:

• Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in young women ages 15-54.
• More than 11,100 women under age 40 will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year, and more than 1,100 will die.
• There are more than 250,000 women in the United States age 40 and under currently living with breast cancer.
• Young women’s cancers are generally more aggressive and result in lower survival rates.
• The five-year survival rate for young women with breast cancer is 82 percent, which is lower than their post-menopausal counterparts.
• Young women with breast cancer struggle with many issues that their post-menopausal counterparts don’t face, including: the possibility of early menopause, pregnancy after diagnosis, generally more advanced cancers at diagnosis, and higher mortality rates.
• As the incidence of young women with breast cancer is much lower than in older women, young women are an underrepresented population in many research studies.