Angels in Italy

About the Book:

Do you know a tumor in your breast may not show in your mammogram? Do you know your doctor may not feel it during a breast exam? Do you know you can survive breast cancer? Do you believe in Angels?

A moving story of one woman's exciting miraculous experience on her first adventure to Italy traveling alone and her discovery of breast cancer. With courage and candor she shares her intimate feelings and experiences about her international love affair with a Roman and her terror and struggle overcoming this disease. She feels sharing her experience is the most important thing she has done in her life. "If telling my story will save another woman's life, it will be worth the heartache of revisiting those memories."

Ms. Hayes lives in Incline Village, Nevada with her husband

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Susan had only been seated a few minutes and was looking out the win­dow. She was feeling Jet lagged from her long journey and was thinking

about how nice it would be to sleep when the train stopped rolling. She jumped when she heard voices! She turned her head to see 3 Italian men

entering her compartment. They looked a little startled when they saw her sitting there in the corner. They spoke to each other in Italian, shrugged then took the remaining seats on the couches. Susan had no idea this was a sleeping compartment that had to be reserved in advance. They hadn't entered her compartment. .. she was in theirs! As the train pulled away from the station, all Susan could think was, "Oh my God! I'm going to be spending the night on this train with 3 strange Italian men!"

As the train clattered along they all sat there in uncomfortable silence for about 30 minutes. Finally one of the men began a little shy conversation with her in Italian. She smiled and shook her head from side to side. With her hands spread she said "I don't understand." When he heard her say this he spoke to her in timid English, "Where are you from?" She said, "I am an American traveling alone." He gave her a big smile and exclaimed, "Ah! You are American. He thought for a moment then asked in an as­tounded voice, "You are traveling alone? Are you crazy?" She answered, "Yes! Yes!" They all looked amazed. Then they started laughing.

Now they all seemed quite excited to be able to practice their English with her. She learned two of them were uncle and nephew traveling home from a wedding. Their names were Ricardo and Edward. The other man was traveling home to his family from his job. His name was Frank. All the men took family photos from their wallets and proudly showed Susan their wives and children. When she told them this was her first time to Italy they excitedly began telling her all the places she should visit while in Florence, Rome and Venice.