Hi Steven,  sorry to hear about your wifes cancer, I hope her treatment is successful.  You asked how I felt about my diagnosis ! Well to be honest I had been waiting on it for 18yrs since my sister died of it. I asked for no sugar coating,  just straight facts and to hold nothing back as thats how I deal with things, head on. 

A cancer nurse told me that she felt that a positive attitude was 70% of the battle already won, and I intend to win. The gatecrasher as I call it wasnt invited to my party so I kicked its butt, and will continue to kick its butt. I know it was invasive but the mastectomy seen to that. They cant guarantee it wont return, but have given me a 70% chance that it wont in the next 5yrs. If Im honest that is my main worry now, that the gatecrasher will return and try to wreck my party again but I refuse to dwell on these thoughts for long. My life is for living and I intend to do just that.