This kind of thing keeps me going

http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/103108/met_350169631.shtml

A piece of the article:
Mooneyhan is believed by the American Cancer Society to be one of the oldest - if not the oldest - breast cancer survivors in the U.S. At 100, she is inspiring family and friends who marvel at her resilience after being afflicted with a disease whose mortality rate in the 1940s was as high as 50 percent.
Ernest Mooneyhan was 15 when his mother was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1943. He still admires her ability to cope with breast cancer at the young age of 35.
"She's definitely been an inspiration to me," he said.

I like the coincidence of the age at diagnosis; I, too, was 35. I choose to see it as a sign.