We went to the funeral of my daughter-in-laws mother and our granddaughters grandma - very special person, loving and sweet and considerate.  I think she was just tired after a fairly long life of pain and obesity.  She had a large family who loves her and will ever miss her. 

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 A few years ago we went to the funeral of our son-in-laws father, who had had a stroke and died the next day.  Then the mother found a huge tumor in her side, but didn't want to acknowledge it and held off going to the doctor for a long time.  The tumor was as big as a basketball by the time they found it and it was heart-breaking to see her trying to live but it was just too late.   They tried special treatment on her and nothing worked.  It is soooo important to see the doctor when you notice a tumor.  Don't wait, its a mistake to do that.  She had such a large family of kids who loved her and would have done anything to have her around longer.  That leaves two of our kids -in- law without families, as well as their siblings. 

I wrote some about my neices from a previous marriage and hope my daughter will write too, as she knows the story more first hand.  Her cousins, from a family of no cancer background, just each and every girl in that family got cancer and most of it started as breast cancer.  It hit the younger twin first and she couldn't beat it.  Next was her oldest sister and she fought it furiously for ten years and it got her.  In the meantime the other twin got it and manages to still be alive.  The last one thought she could beat it by being the healthy one and the biker and athlete, but it came as a large tumor my daughter could feel when she hugged her at her sisters funeral.  She was so beautifully brave, but still couldn't stop the cancer so she could stay with her terrified kids  and loving husband.

Lets work to eradicate this awful scourge NOW!!!