By night, I write the popular breast cancer humor blog, But Doctor...I Hate Pink. You didn't know cancer could be funny, did you?

By day, I'm the secretary to a high school principal, proof that living with cancer and working an insane job is possible. I'm the mother of two wonderful boys, one who is 24 and one who is 13. I'm married to a tired man who had to do a lot of cooking and cleaning this year.

I was diagnosed with invasive breast cancer August of '09. I had a mastectomy, 6 rounds of chemotherapy, a year of herceptin (I'm still not done), began taking tamoxifen, and am still waiting for my reconstruction surgery. It's been a long year - and then some - so I want to say this: get your mammograms! I waited too long and who knows? I might not have needed 16 months of treatment if I hadn't thought "It can't happen to me" and skipped a few years in a row. (Like 8, but who's counting?)

It can happen to anybody - so take care of yourself!