The month before I was diagnosed with Breast Cancer, I was worried about what to wear to my 25 year high school reunion. I opted for the low cut, short purple dress, which is unusual for me because I'm pretty darn conservative.

To say I was shocked when I was diagnosed with Breast Cancer would be a huge, huge, huge, understatement.

If there is such a thing as 'the good kind of cancer', that's what I got. DCIS, ductal carcinoma in situ. Carcinoma - how can I have a disease that I can't spell without spell check? I'm incredibly lucky that it was caught in a very early stage, and with a little surgery here, and a little radiation there, I'm well on my way to becoming a two year survivor.

A funny thing happened after I was diagnosed. I started writing about what I was going through. There were a lot of books that talked about Breast Cancer, but none focused on DCIS. I shared my experiences with friends and family, and we've all grown through the process of surviving DCIS Breast Cancer.

Next, an even funnier thing happened. In New York, there is a group called The Healing Project, started by Debra LaChance. She is a Breast Cancer survivor that wanted to give people going through it a voice, a way to share their hopes, and to not feel so alone. If you go to www.thehealingproject.com, you'll see that her dream has taken root, and The Healing Project has now produced three books. My humorous essay on the lessons I learned during treatment appears in Voices of Breast Cancer. I'd been working on a detective story for a year, and have always wanted to get published. Now, by a strange twist of medical fate, I had a story to tell and The Healing Project listened. Voices of Breast Cancer will be available at your local book store or on Amazon on October 16th.

I must admit that two years after fighting Breast Cancer, I'm much more likely to wear low cut tops.