Every Monday morning we sit in the same room, our friendly, across-the-room glances turning into hours-long texting conversations. But only within these walls.

In here, we're the cancer patients with time on our hands and everything to lose. Out there, however, we couldn't be more different.

I'm a wanna-be social worker who spends her weekends tending bar. He's an artist, but I know there's more to him than that; things he doesn't like to talk about; things like his family, and the girlfriend who can't accept his diagnosis.

He can't save my breasts.
I can't save his voice.

But what we can do is take the scariest thing we've ever faced and make it better... tolerable... dare I even say... fun .

People always talk about what will happen if they don't get better. In our case, however, the unasked question is—what happens if we do?

A sweet story of love and survival with an HEA.