Her insight gained through experience can be a comfort to anyone dealing with personal tragedy and life-changing trauma. This is a memoir that offers a perspective filled with vulnerability and hope as it illuminates the unpredictability of life and the fragility of our bodies but also the strength of our wills to endure and overcome. When people choose to share their experiences with such candor as Davies has, others can find solace and connection as they confront their own challenges. - Michelle Jacobs, The US Review of BooksAre you or someone you love dealing with breast cancer? Read one woman's story to see how she faced her breast cancer journey and came out the other side stronger and more alive. Diane Davies, breast cancer survivor/thriver, shares her private confidences and secrets of survival in Breast Cancer Saved My Life.In this book, you will discover: Comfort Love Faith and prayer Family Friends Gratitude Read about how Diane used these simple values to move her through the trauma of diagnosis, surviving the medical ordeal and back into the happiness and joy of thriving. DIANE DAVIES is a retired first grade teacher, former supervisor of student teachers for UW-River Falls, award winning children's author, and a nineteen year breast cancer survivor/thriver. From There to Here; A Breast Cancer Journey and Breast Cancer Saved My Life are Davies' successful contributions to supporting breast cancer patients throughout the journey helping women learn and grow from as well as survive the journey. These two books and more have been combined together into this volume to continue her support for the breast cancer patient. Davies children's books include; Life in the Neck New Friends, Life in the Neck Squirrel Trouble, Life in the Neck Advent of Christmas, and Jeannie Ann's Grandma Has Breast Cancer (a tool for families to use when they need to have the "I have cancer" conversation with young children). Diane Davies lives in the Neck right next to the animals making their home there. You'll find her in one of the Neck's two houses with her husband Papa Butch. Her grandchildren, Elsie and Eli, live right next store with their mom and dad. The whole family enjoys life on the St. Croix River near Hastings, Minnesota. To find out what the heck is a neck, you'll need to go to Amazon.com or Dianedavies.com to purchase her award winners.