Jennifer Joseph:  

Hello classmates, how are you? Those of you who remember me, I graduated in 76'. I have five children, (I lost the twins I was pregnant with during the school year), had the five after. My children are all grown and I have many beautiful grandchildren with a set of twin in there. Intermountain was a family thing, my brother Andy is a Tribal Councilman, Michael is in Durango, Co., finishing school, Monte, manages the tribes' IT copier program, and Monica and I are starting a teepee business. Monica sews the teepees; I make canvas root-digging bags and other things with the canvas scraps. Be looking for us, we will have a web site set up soon; we will have a discount for all our classmates. The following is personal information-is not intended for anything other then to ask, no beg each of you to be tested please. Because even at worst case, you still have a chance. I was diagnosed with cancer on January 2, 06, the plan was to remove the small lump-they also take the two lymph nodes closest to the breast to see if the cancer has traveled. If it did not travel, I could opt for radiation and be done with. However, one lymph node was positive for cancer, and they had missed a piece of the cancer. The next surgery they took the piece from my breast and removed way... to many lymph nodes, they did this for a count to see how much had spread. (In hindsight I would not have let them take even one more node, they took eighteen, of these- four had cancer, I wish I had the fourteen healthy ones to fight off colds and any other cancer that is filtered out in the lymph nodes. I was receiving the strongest doses of chemo to kill any other cancer in the body the surgery did not get, even invaded lymph nodes). I let my body rest for six wee...Expand for more