People react to challenging situations in very different ways. For CUNA Mutual Group SVP of Credit Union Protection Marc Krasnick he reached out to everyone he knew, and it would turn out, many he didn't know, to rally support for his wife who was diagnosed with breast cancer. That reaching out would later turn into a book, .Only Diane, that documents, in modern fashion (e-mail communiqus), the ups and downs of his wife Diane's cancer treatments. "The book is basically a compilation of e-mail updates which I had begun to do when my wife first had her diagnosis of a pretty serious case of breast cancer," he said. They found out in January of 2001 that she had stage 3B breast cancer, a very advanced stage. "It was quite a shock. We had no clue. Because of the many people who are good friends and care about her so much, I found myself inundated with phone calls when I got home from the hospital late at night. It was overwhelming. I started asking people for e-mail addresses and if they were interested in getting updates. It grew to hundreds of people and became our cybersupport group," said Krasnick. He said people passed them on to who they knew and the Krasnicks were soon hearing kind words from people all over the world, many they did not know directly. The e-mails span about a year and encompass over 120 pages. Krasnick said the e-mails became his coping mechanism and was a way for him to express his feelings, and gave Diane a chance to display her humor. "She inserted quite a bit of humor so people wouldn't view every update as another upsetting, negative bit of information," said Krasnick. The e-mails did contain a lot of technical medical information on the cancer, treatments, and such. Krasnick advises anyone in this kind of situation to learn as much as they can on their own and to question doctors. The name of the book, .Only Diane, spurs from Diane's remarkable way of handling adversity. Krasnick said he would often end e-mails with something like ".only Diane would find the good in this or .only Diane would handle the procedure so well." "That really became the theme of the e-mails. Sort of what else would you expect from this remarkable patient." Diane had 56 sessions of chemotherapy, 25 radiation treatments and eight surgeries. She is not completely out of the woods, he said, but she is on her way. Ironically, Krasnick himself is a cancer survivor – he had a rare bladder cancer. "With people caring about you and you believing you'll defeat the disease is the most powerful treatment of all." [email protected]