School superintendent is upbeat during breast-cancer treatment

The head of the Prior Lake-Savage School District is in treatment for breast cancer, but is still working and says her outlook is excellent.

Superintendent Sue Ann Gruver received the diagnosis in December and had surgery to remove a breast lump and lymph node over Christmas break. She is now going through chemotherapy as a preventative measure, she said Tuesday.

Gruver, 61, will have to take at least a few days off in the next couple of months, but said she should be through the worst of the treatments in April.

"I don't want people thinking I'm dying, because I'm not," she said.

"Sometimes, I have a thimbleful of energy, and I have to spread it ever so carefully through my day," she said. But the cancer "was very treatable, and we caught it early."

Gruver has been superintendent of the district since last summer.

SARAH LEMAGIE