Laughing thru Cancer

March is woman's history month, so CFB will be featuring not just novels , but more real stories by and for women this month. Inspirational speaker and breast cancer survivor, Yvonne Ortega's new book, Hope for the Journey through Cancer: Inspiration for Each Day is this week's spotlight. Her book offers 60 short inspirational readings, each containing a part of Ortega's own story from diagnosis to recovery. She stops by today to participate in our 1question interview series.

Is there ever a time when you can laugh about cancer?

I asked God to help me keep my sense of humor. The day my hair started to fall out, I went to work with wet hair. My colleagues thought I had a power outage. I told them I was afraid to blow dry my hair because I might blow it all off and arrive looking like a Buddhist monk. I laugh now about how angry I was with God. I thought he had made a mistake. Now I understand he used the cancer for good in my life and the lives of others. I laugh every time I reminisce about George, my radiation therapist. He entertained me with stories about his childhood adventures.