I found Sandee's blog two years ago, when my breast cancer diagnosis was fresh and I was completely lost. I was immediately struck by the courage of this woman whose story is nothing short of inspirational.

Sandee was diagnosed with breast cancer -- or The Dragon, as she lovingly calls it -- in September 1998. Faced with a stage II disease that had not yet spread to her lymph nodes, she endured a partial mastectomy, six rounds of chemotherapy, and 25 radiation treatments. Despite medical intervention, cancer traveled through Sandee's bloodstream and showed up one year later in her bones and liver. Then in September 2004, a scan showed multiple tumors in her lungs. Today, weekly chemotherapy treatments -- she calls them brutal -- are a way of life for Sandee who is fighting with everything she's got.

Sandee uses her blog -- I Will Survive -- to update readers on her health and to thank friends and family members who shower her with support. And Sandee posts with each entry one random thought, along with something for which she is thankful.

On November 22, Sandee wrote in a post called Bitter Sweet about the results of her recent chest CT -- stable -- and about her cancer-survivor cousin whose MRI results indicate tumor activity in his brain -- again. Sandee writes about a chemotherapy treatment and a bone treatment that followed the very next day.

"Double whammys are never good," she writes.

In this same entry, she grieves the loss of a friend who passed away three years ago, and she thanks a friend for visiting her during a treatment. Sandee closes with a random thought -- I can take "me" being ill but not those I love -- and gives thanks for having known her friend and angel, Andrea.

I am thankful for Sandee -- and the spirit she infuses into a life consumed by cancer.