Hi I just finally got myself to the dentist -- and I would so much rather of gone for another biopsy than a teeth clean!!! Not that I want the cancer back again, but for me the biopsy's are pretty painless. I like Margs idea of practising the telling family speech, I muffed it with my oldest daughter, and probably really scared her amongst my sobs/snot .. the other two I kept my cool. You will tell everyone when the time is right, I did before I knew my treatment regime mostly because they had been trying to reach me as I was doing all the tests and then I had surgery, so don't stress. I used the book more as a reference than reading the whole lot. And you are right this site is a fabulous group.