I want to share my experiences with you, to help any one of you stay strong and survive some of the dreadful times that I have gone through over the last 10 years.

Take your pick, between cancer or divorce, I have learned a great deal that I would like to pass on and help you have the confidence and tenacity to deal with doctors and lawyers alike. (They can be worse than an ex-husband!)

Like so many others I went to an "expert" for advice, in both cases, and eventually learned (the hard way) some of the what to do's and the what not to do's.

If I can encourage you to have the confidence to let your doctor know that you know something is not right with your body, and maybe catch that "something" in time, and if I can help you avoid some of the pitfalls of the divorce system, (which can literally kill you) then it will make at least some of my experiences worth while (not a whole hell of a lot, but some).

This will take time, as there is so much to "share" partly it will be painful, partly therapeutic, but hopefully mostly enlightening. It will be like reading a book (now that's an idea) and I will also share horrors of friends and associates who have gone through similar, or just as unbelievable nightmares.

Please bear with me as I write the pages, but my goal is I hope you will benefit in one way or another.

Stay strong, healthy, and believe in who you are... Lyndy

Lyndy Janes Dangerfield, mum of two wonderful boys, Nicholas and Alexander, ex model and fashion designer from London and of course, lucky sister of "our Ange"

I came to America in 1982 and ended up in the Bay area when Ange and George lived here and she was pregnant with Calum. I met my first husband in Los Gatos and at the age of 30, I was ready to start a family.

Unfortunately the marriage wasn't good (as you will see in the upcoming pages) and ended in divorce.

At age 40, I was asked to be the cover model for the launching issue of a woman's magazine and I jumped at the offer. I then started a very popular business teaching etiquette, first to children, then corporations. To my surprise as I was doing this and starting "the divorce from hell" (to be called from now on) I was diagnosed with cancer again. No health insurance, no child support and eventually no home, I was forced to go on welfare whilst trying to make a success of the business with the help of a so-called partner (yet another story).

After much publicity, many surgeries, and even more hearings in the divorce courts, I survived the cancer, the partner ran off with the business and the book deal, and the divorce is still going on.

But I have my two great sons, with whom I have the closest, open and loving relationships and a wonderful husband, Chris, whose patience and love I could not even begin to describe, a very strong and caring mother without whom I could not have endured half my experiences, and the most encouraging, insightful and loving sister also without whom I would not have survived especially my many surgeries, as she started her journey of herbs and healing, when I was diagnosed the second time around (oh yes, yet another one).

So who am I? I'm just a girl, like you, who got dealt a little more than the average, but who has a "team" of family, whose love, understanding, encouragement, and belief in her has made her who she is today, a woman who wants to share some of the good times and the bad times, to help others, because "Sharing is Caring".