This is an inspiring story that cancer patients as well as their families and loved ones will definitely relate to. The author, who herself suffered from leukemia or blood cancer, states that the key to survival is taking control, learning everything you can about your treatment, making informed decisions and being prepared to fight if necessaryfor the right care, right doctors and in the end, for your own life. She describes her painful struggle against the disease and the emotional trauma that made her a stronger woman. In the end, borrowing from the famous saying about freedom she states that "the price of health is eternal vigilance".