No one saw what was coming for Hume though. "I am a two-time cancer survivor," she said. "I had put off going to the doctor because I didn't want to miss anything. It turns out I had to have surgery." Following the surprise surgery, what happened next, knowing Hume, wasn't a total surprise. Hours after her surgery, she was teaching again, from her hospital bed. "I was asking the doctor, 'Can I go now? Can I go now?' And he's like, 'You have a temperature of 102. You have to stay.'" Stay she did, stay and teach, even though her kids couldn't have been in better hands.