Just found out that Terry Heaton (who gave a great presentation at Gnomedex this year) is undergoing surgery this week for a lunp on his breast. He will find out after the surgery if it was cancerous.
He is blogging about the surgery and being an American without health insurance here:
http://donatacom.com/archives/00001070.htm
and there is a tipjar on the top left corner of the page.